LAHORE: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) says that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has no economic plan and new approach to resolve the issues being faced by the country.

Senior party leader and former Sindh minister Shehla Raza told a press conference in Township cricket ground, the venue selected by the PPP for chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s election rally to be held on Sunday, that it’s new age with new demands but the PML-N is treading the old paths and does not have innovative approach to solve the economic problems of the current era.

She said unlike the PPP the rivals neither had any manifesto nor economic agenda to present before the voters.

In an indirect hint at PML-N’s claims of constructing motorways during its tenures in power, she said the PPP too would build roads but would give preference to the health sector and produce solar energy to provide 300 units of electricity to each poor household.

She said that the masses had seen the condition of those who had been claiming that their matters had been settled (with the powers that be).

Lahore chapter president Chaudhry Aslam Gill said that unlike small meetings by the PML-N, the PPP would hold a grand show in this ground on Sunday where Bilawal Bhutto would speak to the Lahorites in the afternoon.

The public meeting would be a proof that Bilawal would win from the National Assembly’s constituency NA-127 on Feb 8.

Zulfikar Ali Bader said that the PPP chairman would become the prime minister after winning polls from this constituency.

Meanwhile, some miscreants set ablaze banners and flexes of PPP candidate for PP-162 Manzar Abbas Khokhar at his election office in yje Satto Katla area.

In an application submitted to the Township police for registration of an FIR, he alleged that it was a petrol bomb attack on his office.

He blamed his rivals for the attack, saying they were afraid of his election campaign and fearing their defeat.

Published in Dawn, January 20th, 2024