PESHAWAR, Aug 16: The Pakistan People’s Party has called upon the people to reject the King’s splinter groups in the upcoming elections and vote in favour of PPP.

PPP provincial chief Khwaja Mohammad Khan Hoti alleged that the government wanted to keep the PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto out of the elections “for which it had got drafted Draconian laws and introduced political parties order.”

Benazir Bhutto, he said, was a symbol of Pakistan’s federation and keeping her out of politics would bring no rewards to the rulers. They were leading the country towards irreparable losses, he added.

He said the present government had put all its energies into countering the PPP as it considered it (PPP) the only party which had fought a relentless struggle against the successive military regimes.

Mr Hoti said the people were wise enough and knew who were the henchmen of dictators and who their true representatives. He said the government wanted to rig the coming elections by bringing its henchmen together on one platform, he added.

The PPP had been the only political party which worked for the betterment of the common man and restored the dignity of poor and working-class people, he added.

He said the people would foil all anti-democratic moves of the rulers and shut the doors on dictators for ever.

He advised the rulers to stop their vendetta against the PPP and let the people elect their representatives in a free and fair way.

He asked the Election Commission to take notice of the government’s anti-PPP moves. The government was exerting pressure on PPP leaders to change their loyalties, he added.

He requested the CEC to allot symbol of arrow to the PPP. The government wanted to allot this symbol to one of its henchmen, he claimed.