PPP will sweep LB polls, claims Bilawal

Published September 3, 2015
PPP chairman asked workers to launch mass contact campaigns.—Reuters/File
PPP chairman asked workers to launch mass contact campaigns.—Reuters/File

LARKANA: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari asked the party workers on Wednesday to make preparations for the forthcoming local bodies elections in Sindh and expressed the hope that his party would sweep the polls.

He was talking to PPP lawmakers, office-bearers and activists from Larkana and Qambar-Shahdadkot at Naudero House.

In an apparent reference to the recently formed Larkana Awami Ittehad, he predicted that the alliance would be defeated.

Also read: PPP begins preparations for LG polls

He said active workers of PPP would be given tickets for LB elections and asked workers to launch mass contact campaigns.

Briefing journalists about the meeting, Sindh Minister for Information and Education Nisar Ahmed Khuhro said: “We have adopted the pattern Benazir Bhu­tto had chosen to have regular consultations with workers because they guide us in difficult times.”

About Rangers, he said they had been in Sindh for years and were engaged in the fight against terrorists, extortionists and land grabbers in Karachi. The paramilitary force was called in Karachi with the consent of all political parties.

However, he said, it was not fair to link everybody to target killers and terrorists.

Mr Khuhro said former federal minister Dr Asim Hussain had been arrested by men in plainclothes and such arrests could be termed unlawful.

If Dr Hussain could be picked up, why not Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah, he asked.

He termed actions taken by the FIA and the NAB a violation of provincial autonomy.

Published in Dawn, September 3rd, 2015

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