Ex-CM Murad calls Bilawal the ‘dearest leader’

The former Sindh chief minister Murad Ali Shah has said the history of the 1970 general elections will be repeated in 2024 when against the predictions of selection of a favourite politician, Pakistan Peoples Party will emerge successful.

Talking to the media in Thatta district at the third death anniversary of former provincial minister Syed Aijaz Hussain Shah Sherazi, the ex-CM said in the 1970 the name of some other politician used to be bandied about as the upcoming prime minister.

Shah asserted that the same will happen again in 2024 when instead of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz's leader Mian Nawaz Sharif, PPP's Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will be elected as the PM. "In reality, only Bilawal is the most dearest leader of the public."

He maintained that a perception was created before the general elections in 2013 and in 2018 that PML-N and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) would form the governments, respectively, with Sharif and Imran Khan as the prime ministers. "The powers which brought Khan to the PM's office had to expel him after three years for right or wrong reasons."

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He expressed hope that an elected government and not a selected one will be formed after the 2024 general elections. The ex-CM said the people still looked towards the PPP to find solutions to the prevailing financial woes, inflation and unemployment in the country.

Shah said despite changes in the electoral constituencies, the PPP's candidates will sweep all the seats in Thatta and Sujawal districts.

He recalled that in the 2018 elections as well, the PPP's candidates bagged all the seats in the two neighbouring coastal districts.

Earlier, the former CM announced in Matli, a taluka of Badin district, that after forming the provincial government his party will declare Matli a district keeping in view the people's long time demand.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 12^th, 2023.