Mumtaz Bhutto hints at election comeback

MIRPUR BHUTTO:

Mumtaz Ali Bhutto has hinted that he may contest the next general elections against the Pakistan Peoples Party.

Mumtaz Bhutto last stood elections in 1993. “Since the standard of assemblies had declined to such a low level, I realized that it would be useless to sit in such assemblies,” he said while talking to a delegation at his residence on Friday. “But that doesn’t mean that I would never contest the polls.”

The chief of the now defunct Sindh National Front alleged that MNA Faryal Talpur won a seat from Ratodero by using the government machinery. “This seat belongs to the Bhutto family as it was the constituency of my father [Nawab Nabi Bux Bhutto] who never lost the election,” he said. Later, his father handed over the constituency to Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and announced retirement from active politics. Benazir Bhutto also used to contest polls from the same seat. “This constituency belongs to Bhuttos,” said the veteran politician, who merged his party with the Nawaz Sharif-led Pakistan Muslim League last year. 

Published in The Express Tribune, October 13^th, 2012.