PESHAWAR: Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will address a public meeting in Bannu on March 24.

A party source said here on Tuesday that the PPP chief would hold meetings with party’s office-bearers, provincial leaders belonging to different southern districts and also apprise himself of the reorganisation process.

Bilawal will also discuss issues pertaining to strengthening of PPP and develop consensus with local leadership on the preparations for next general elections.

It was learnt that duties had already been assigned to office-bearers of PPP’s sister organisations to double their efforts for bringing maximum people to the venue of public meeting as it was the first-ever visit of the party chief to the district.

The organising committee, consisting of the provincial leadership, has urged the local workers to form committees and start door to door visits in respective localities to mobilise the masses for the scheduled public meeting.

Bilawal will visit every division of the province and address public meetings to activate party workers by conveying them the PPP message for people’s uplift and the country’s development.

Meanwhile, MPA Ziaullah Khan Afridi, in a statement on Tuesday, said that PPP’s success in the Senate elections was a new challenge for the rival political parties, especially the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf. He said that PTI would face crushing defeat in the next general elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

He said the PTI government in the province had failed to deliver and that was why its activists were fast parting ways with it. He said the slogan of ‘change’ was nothing more than a false claim which failed to build confidence of the people during the past over four years tenure of the provincial government.

Mr Afridi also criticised Pakistan Muslim League-N for not taking interest in initiating mega uplift schemes in the province.

Published in Dawn, March 21st, 2018