LARKANA, Feb 20: “We are not hurt by our defeat but false promises people made to us during the election campaign have hurt us deeply,” complained veteran politician Mumtaz Ali Bhutto.

Addressing workers of his Sindh National Front at Mirpur Bhutto on Wednesday, Mr Bhutto said that not a single voter in the Sindh Assembly’s constituency of PS-37 from where his son Ameer Bakhsh Bhutto was contesting had said he would not vote for his party, “but their word proved untrue”.

“Had they (voters) told us straightforwardly that they would vote for Benazir Bhutto’s PPP candidates we, as a mark of respect to her martyrdom, would have withdrawn from the contest,” he said.

Anyway, elections are over now and people have again elected those who had ‘filled their own coffers’ and failed to run the country’s affairs in their previous terms in office, he said, adding: “We are waiting to see how these politicians whom people had once called killers, corrupt and turncoats would form and run the government this time.”