LAHORE, Nov 1: PML-N President Nawaz Sharif says the country is being plundered by everyone as the masses are suffering under the burden of unemployment, power loadshedding and socio-economic problems.He was talking to party activists at a meeting at Raiwind here on Thursday.

He said everyone was looting national resources while the PML-N, if voted to power, would divert all resources towards development.

He said all citizens would have to make joint efforts for beautifying our homeland.

He held dictators and bad governance responsible for the deteriorating socio-economic conditions of the masses, and said had the unelected people not taken charge of the national affairs the country would have joined the club of developed nations.

Meanwhile, Shahid Chaudhry, a local Tehrik-i-Insaaf leader, joined the PML-N in the presence of Punjab Assembly Deputy Speaker Rana Mashhud at a corner meeting in Gulshan-i-Ravi here.

Welcoming the new entrant, Rana Mashhud urged the masses to be ready for accountability of the PPP government in the forthcoming elections.

He said the PML-N supported a change in government through constitutional and democratic means and it would oppose tooth and nail any extra-constitutional step.

He hoped that the masses would give their mandate to the PML-N keeping in view its ‘principled’ politics.— Staff Reporter

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