DADU, Jan 18: The government has planned to get favourite candidates elected in the election by casting bogus votes but the PML-N resist such plans. This was stated by General Secretary of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) Sindh, Makhdoom Shahnawaz, while addressing a convention of the party workers here on Thursday.

He said that the government’s campaign to tarnish the image of opposition leaders, including Ms Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, through a media trial would backfire despite spending millions.

Makhdoom Shahnawaz said that Nawaz Sharif would return and also participate in the general elections. He said that due to wrong policies of the rulers, poverty graph was increasing and the poor were being denied their basic rights.

He claimed that PML-N would secure a majority in the forthcoming general elections.

He said fair elections were impossible under President General Pervez Musharraf, and demanded international monitors for the elections which should be held under an independent election commission.

He said that Dingi and Bhidhar islands were the property of Sindh which belonged to the local fishermen and must not be sold to any foreign firm.Addressing the convention, President of the PML-N women wing, Sindh chapter, Soorath Thebo, said that women were deprived of their rights due to wrong policies of the rulers.

Among others, district president of PML-N Hamid Bhand, district secretary, Aziz Rajput, district president of women wing Zahida Bhand, Mohammad Khan Lakho and Ghulam Rasool also addressed the convention.

DRIVE BACKED: Vice president PML youth wing, Dadu taluka, Sikandar Chandio on Thursday filed an application in the court of district and session Judge Dadu against 23 revenue employees for uprooting hunger strike camp and thrashing party activists outside the press club on January 13.