PML-N rally: ‘State machinery enlisted to ensure big DG Khan show
Punjab government is using state machinery to make Nawaz Sharif’s address to a public gathering in Dera Ghazi Khan on October 19 (today) a success, Pakistan Peoples Party’s Deputy Parliamentary Leader in Punjab Assembly Shaukat Mehmood Basra alleged on Tuesday.
Basra said the government had directed even Bahawalpur division administration to help send people from their districts to attend the gathering.
“They should wait for the next general election. Nawaz Sharif will cause PPP government no harm by addressing a gathering of revenue officials,” he said.
Several revenue and police officials in DG Khan told The Express Tribune that officials in DG Khan, Muzaffargarh, Layyah and Rajanpur have been directed to ensure an impressive gathering at DG Khan cricket stadium on October 19 (today). They said all revenue officials have been told to attend the event and bring ‘supporters’ with them. They said they have been given a target of a hundred thousand people for attendance at Wednesday’s gathering. Police officials in these districts have been told to come up with a suitable traffic plan so that people headed towards the venue suffer no traffic jams, they added. The address is to mark the beginning of PML-N’s ‘Go Zardari’ campaign. The party plans to hold rallies all over the country and highlight issues like load shedding, corruption and price hike and mobilise people against the PPP government.
DG Khan district coordination officer Iftikhar Sahu declined comment on the allegations.
District Police Officer Malik Tasadduq Hayat denied that his department had been directed to bring people to the gathering. He said around 5,000 police officials would be performing security duties at and around the cricket ground.
PML-N MNA Sirdar Saifuddin Khosa, son of Senior Adviser to the Chief Minister Sirdar Zulfiqar Khan Khosa, also rejected the suggestion that his party or the provincial government was using state machinery to make the gathering a success.
“We don’t need to use such tactics. People from as far as Bahawalpur have asked us to arrange transport for them to attend the gathering,” he said. He said all PML-N MNAs and MPAs from DG Khan and neighbouring districts would attend the gathering with their supporters.
The DG Khan rally is to be followed by a gathering in Faisalabad on October 19.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 19th, 2011.
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The popularity was dropped due to the misconceptions created by a party which is not in the parliament, and which is exercising its election campaign through dharnas and jalsas. Once PML(N) holds on the public rallies and defends the allegations on it, it will rise up again. We need a real change, which can not expected from a party who is collecting the garbage of other parties.
Only Imran Khan can save Pakistan my dear fellow Pakistanis.Vote for PTI.Zardari and Nawaz live in palaces and yet don't pay a single penny in tax.MQM is a terrorist organistion while Q league is lota league.
@Abubakar: dude.. But if u look the net change in popularity, NS has been dropped by 4 points, while SS has been dropped by 10 points. Which means, most of the response were negative...
lolz........Even using state machinery, u can gather no more than 10,000.....
Sitting govt. are always alleged by the opponents, but I would say it would be a little unfair to underestimate the support of PML(N).
Nawaz Sharif, by a recent gallup survey, is the most popular politician in the country followed by Shahbaz Sharif. So they can present a good show today, that's understandable.
it must be a huge show!