LARKANA: At the fag end of the election campaign, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in the lead of the party’s Sindh chapter presi­dent Nisar Ahmed Khuhro took out a big rally here on Thursday.

Participating in the rally were PPP candidates Nida Khuhro and Suhail Anwer Siyal, contesting from PS-11 (Larkana-II) and PS-12 (Lar­k­ana-III) respectively, Lark­ana district party president Abdul Fatah Bhutto, Khair Mohammed Shaikh, Nooru­ddin Abro and Safdar Mithani.

It was taken out from Luhar filling station on the Larkana-Naudero road. Carrying party banners and tricolour flags, and raising slogans, the cheering crowd demonstrated their support to party candidates and vowed to inflict defeat on the Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) candidates on July 25.

The party leaders riding on a decorated vehicle kept waving to the people who were expressing support to Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and other PPP nominees in the district while showering rose petals on the leaders. Amidst pro-PPP songs, people dan­ced and led the rally which was received by enthusiastic party workers at Gajjanpur chowk, Bank Square, Pakis­tan Chowk, Jinnahbagh Chowk.

Addressing the charged party workers, Nisar Khuhro said that today’s rally had proved that Larkana was and would remain a PPP strong­hold. He said the people of Larkana with their profuse participation in the rally had demonstrated that they stood by the PPP and would vote to defeat the opponents in the election.

He said they rejected the alliances that had in their manifestos incorporated a plan to construct Kalabagh dam. Terming the GDA a puppet alliance, he predicted that it would be a short-lived one. He alleged that all those pleading to construct Kalabagh dam had gathered at one platform, but they should clearly know that the people of Sindh hated such alliances.

He was confident that the people on election day would frustrate the nefarious designs of what he called traitors and turncoats. He said the PML-F supported the MQM’s stand on Sindh’s division and the support had exposed them before the people.

He claimed that the PTI, GDA, PML-N and MQM had lacked public welfare programmes.

SUKKUR: PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari will be addressing a big public meeting in Jacobabad on Sunday, according to the party’s Larkana division president, Mir Aijaz Hussain Jakhrani.

Mr Jakhrani, PPP’s candidate for NA-196 Jacobabad, told a press conference in Jacobabad on Thursday that it would be a historic show of strength which would be held in Numaish Ground, the venue of the July 17 public meeting of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf which was addressed by its chief Imran Khan.

Published in Dawn, July 20th, 2018