PESHAWAR, May 8: The Pakistan People’s Party has vowed that it will defeat the government-backed six-party alliance with the backing of democracy-loving people in the next general elections.

In a statement, PPP provincial chief Khwaja Mohammad Khan Hoti said the six-party alliance was part of a government policy to make a dent in the political parties. Most of the alliance leaders were deserters of the national political parties, he added.

He claimed that the government would use this alliance against the genuine political forces. He said some of the components of the so-called national alliance could be termed ‘tonga parties’ as they were without any following in the masses, he added.

Earlier, he said, the government had used these parties in the referendum, but they failed in their efforts to bring the people to the polling stations, and now they have been banded together to oust the national-level political parties from the general elections.

He said the alliance held no position in the masses and most of its leaders could not bag even a single seat. They had always acted like governments’ men in the past, he added.

He said the people would reject them in the elections as they had rejected them in the campaign for the referendum. The PPP, he said, had faced people like them in the past and it would defeat them in the future.

Mr Hoti condemned the government for facilitating undue coverage of the so-called alliance leaders on the PTV’s national hook-up. All the political forces be given equal time on the electronic media, he demanded.

Meanwhile, a PPP spokesman also chipped in with a statement, terming the alliance a gathering of “used cartridges.”

Eng Ghani Gul Mahsood said that such sort of political alliances were not long-lasting. Instead, they are bound to fall apart with the approaching of general elections. The few politicians who have made this alliance are not the true representatives of political parties, he added.

He said it was a group of failed politicians who did not even command a following of sizable section of people.

He said the present government was behind the formation of this alliance to serve its own agenda. These politicians had always extended their shoulders to dictatorial regimes, he said.

He said in the past some of these politicians were sitting in the PNA and IJI.