Former PM and PPP leader Yousuf Raza Gilani. PHOTO: FILE
"Someone needs to stand up and accept responsibility and I accept responsibility."
He made the announcement during a press conference at Multan press club on Monday, two days after his party failed to get a substantive number of seats in the May 11 polls.
“I am surprised at the people of Pakistan who blamed PPP for every crisis,” Gilani said talking about the mandate of Pakistanis who did not re-elect the PPP government.
Confirming that his party will now spend the next five years on the opposition benches, Gilani ensured the PPP will play an effective role.
“I accept public’s decision and I understand that the public was angry about power outages and unstable economy but Why didn’t anyone ask Shahbaz Sharif about how many Watts had he contributed in energy production of the country?" he questioned.
“The kidnapping of my son is no way related to my resignation and I have no differences with the leadership of the party,” he said talking about kidnapping of his son Ali Haider Gilani on the eve of the elections.
Gilani was elected prime minister after the 2008 general elections and held the position till April 26, 2012.
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Who is stopping them.
Observing the pattern of voting it is visible that ethnicity has played its role fully.
PPP despite its failed/ worst governance has been able to retain its majority in Sindh ( highest number of seats in NA as well as provincial Assembly) PML (N) & PTI both could not dent in Sindh neither rural nor urban area.
PML(N) swept votes Punjab province in NA & Provincial assembly. However PTI did penetrate and won 7 NA seats there. PTI garnered majority in KP ( den of Pastuns) . One more term will teach the lessons( to public) to dis associate with ethnicity/ loyalty and the performance / better governance which will directly affect the masses( generation of employment/ better health services & education ) will be the criteria for winning. Politicians too must have understood ( from the plight of PPP) the importance to serve rather than pocketing the resources. If PTI is able to perform its role of effective opposition to check and balance the governance it will certainly will be be given a bigger role ( by the people of Pakistan) in the coming years in Parliament. One thing is sure, this process has and will strengthen the democracy.
During the last five years you have been making people of Pakistan fool just for nothing.
PPP from a Federal Political Party, now your party have become a Provincial Political Party of Sindh.
This is the curse of Benazir Bhutto whom your leaders gave shoulders to her coffin and laid her down in the grave, but your political party have done nothing for people of Pakistan and that is why people who gave sympathy vote after the death of BB have taken the mandate back from you.
When you came to beg votes in January 2008, you people said that you are going to seve masses, but infact you people have filled up your pockets, looted the country and except rising the inflation by 300%, you people have done nothing for the masses.
Let me also tell you that PPP would never ever be able to rise from its ashes again in tye future, never ever. Take my words as granted.
I must say he is a true democrat.
Playing politics over dead leader will not going help PPP anymore. they should change their manifesto.
@Mirza: You have redefined the meaning of Integrity.
@sehr.siddiqui: And thank goodness for that. Zardari will go down in Pakistan's history as the best Politician for a good many generation.He reached out to everyone friend and foe alike.He steered this parliament to full term.He built institutions of Election Commissioner and caretaker government.
I hoped he would quit from politics forever
This is somewhat amazing result. Surely, they had done many things to gain votes from rural areas such as support prices for the corps as well as increase in salaries of the salaried class. Apart from this they had focused on south Punjab for development work. I am amazed how none of that paid off and how come we witnessed such a systematic wiping off even from south Punjab. If a Metro bus paid off for N-league, how come nothing paid off for them? Was loadsheding the single issue which people voted on? But then, it seems too much systematic for the whole population to do it on that basis.
No i have not given these comments before.Please post my remarks.
Still not ready to accept that their governance was awful. Even ANP admitted that the people were unsatisfied by their governance. This was the most irresponsible government in the history of this country.
This should have been done long back! Sub Kuch Luta Kay Hosh Mei'n Aye Tou Kia Kia?
Still not accepting their mistakes.....the most irresposinble government in the history ok Pakistan. Even ANP accepted the defeat and admitted that people were not satisfied by their governence.
Wats happen to his son? Did he come back
The ex-PM is a man of integrity and not a sore loser. Somebody has to stand up and take the responsibility of defeat. As more time goes by people would realize that PPP politicians are not as big devils as they were made to look. From the day one they lost the PR war when they were called NRO beneficiary. On the other hand nobody punished PML-N and Sharif brothers to be NRO benficiaries and no cases against them. Their cases are in cold storage of LHC for 15 long years. After their victory they would never be taken up by the "independent" judiciary.
We hope that new government in Pakistan will made something new and development work. We also want peace in the country.
@ashar: Abused, rather.
How about the mother of all reasons that the PPP suffered this loss: Zardaris and Bhuttos? When are they going to quit the scene? It should be a lesson for the PPP and Mr. Gilani and his successor Mr. Ashraf. Had they done justice to the office they held and all the executive powers that belonged to it under the constitution, instead of acting as concierge of the Zardari and Bhutto families, the PPP probably would not have suffered the fate it did. If the party continues to behave as the property of these two families, it will continue to take beatings. By the way, PML-N better take a note of it, too. If it continues to behave as the Shariff family property, it will one day vanish like the PPP, too. Siddique Malik, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
“I am surprised at the people of Pakistan who blamed PPP for every crisis,” Gilani said. Wasn't he the PM of Pakistan who should have been more in touch with what the people wanted and how they felt? Did he forget that the middle "P" in PPP actually stands for People's. No kidding, Sherlock.
Don't you think you have been misused by the Big Man?
Well, let's hope that it was out of some remorse, and maybe some shame, however little, that prompted Yusuf Raza Gilani Sahib's resignation. He may not understand why the people wiped his party off the political landscape of much of the country, barring Sindh, but he surely would recall an oft-quoted statement: "Democracy is the best revenge." Many people did not fully grasp the meaning of it when it was originally said by Benazir Bhutto. Now, after the elections, people can fully fathom the depth of that statement. If you do not heed the voice of the people, if you shamelessly flout the pronouncements of the Courts, if you conduct yourself such that the tenure will never end, surely this is what happens. People exercise the only recourse they have, taking revenge by kicking them out. This process would have taught the politicians lessons eons ago, if it was not for our brave military generals to have intervened periodically in the political affairs of our country. The coup d'états of the past alone are singularly responsible for lack of mature political institutions in the country. AND, the people always, I stress always, make the right decisions; however, we may not be able to understand them at the time.
Who cares
Accept that you were inefficient .