Housing scheme: Bilawal censures PML-N’s economic policies

Says PPP’s policies are ‘of the people, for the people and by the people’.

KARACHI:

PPP Patron-in-Chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, while referring to a leading industrial magnate Mian Mansha, said on Monday that the PML-N government’s “economic policies are of Mansha, for Mansha and by Mansha”.  Conversely, the PPP’s “economic policies are of the people, by the people and for the people”.

Speaking at the draw of the Benazir Bhutto Town housing scheme at the Chief Minister’s House in Karachi on Monday, Bilawal hit out at the economic policies of the PML-N government at the Centre. He added that the PPP believed in providing ‘roti, kapra and makan’ to all. “Today, we are fulfilling our promise by providing shelter to the poor,” he added.

In the first phase of the scheme, 27,500 houses measuring 120 square yards will be provided to the poor in eight districts of Sindh, including Karachi. Provincial Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah and PPP’s Karachi chapter president Qadir Patel also addressed the ceremony. Provincial ministers Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, Manzoor Wassan, Shajeel Memon and Makhddom Jameeluz Zaman, Syed Owais Muzaffar and a large number of party supporters were also present.

In his address, Chief Minister Shah said that peasants and workers would be given houses in all districts of the province, including Karachi. “Only the PPP leadership can launch such a scheme,” he said while indirectly criticising the PPP’s main rival, the PML-N. 

Published in The Express Tribune, December 10^th, 2013.