Bilawal Bhutto urges people to vote for ‘arrow’ if they wanted to stop the lion
HYDERABAD, Feb 04 (SABAH): With the electioneering reaching its peak just days before the February 8 general elections, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Sunday fired salvos at all the political parties.
Addressing a public rally in Hyderabad, Bilawal Bhutto urged people to vote for “arrow” — the PPP’s election symbol— if they wanted to stop the lion, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) electoral symbol.
Stressing the need for hard work, the ex-foreign minister asked the participants: “You just get PPP won [elections]. I will handle this lion.”
Taking a dig at the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) in the city, once considered the stronghold of the party, the PPP chairman advised the people that if you were asked to vote for “kite” then tell them: “[We] will not vote for those who raise anti-Pakistan slogans”.
You should say that you would rip apart the kite, he added. The PPP leader urged the people not to waste their vote by casting for any independent candidate — an apparent reference to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-backed candidates.
Bilawal Bhutto also did not spare even Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), the party which was an ally of the PPP in the previous Pakistan Democratic Movement’s government.
He urged the participants not to vote for “book”, the electoral symbol of JUI-F, asking them not to support those who divide the nation on a religious basis. “I needed all the seats of Hyderabad,” he tasked his party workers.
Bilawal thanked the people for electing PPP during the recent local body elections in the city and said: “There will be a rain of arrows on February 8.”
The PPP leader urged the masses to bury the politics of hatred and division with the power of vote.
Moving on to the PML-N, Bilawal Bhutto said another party in the federation was doing the politics of hatred and division. In a veiled dig at PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif, the PPP leader said that he wanted to return to power for the fourth time by hook or by crook.
Slamming the PML-N leadership, Bilawal said that they did not understand people’s problems, adding that they just wanted to rule the country for the fourth time.
Bilawal Bhutto said he would end the politics of hatred and division if his party voted to power. He said “people know about the origin and past of the political parties who want to compete with us.”
He said “I am here with the brothers and sisters of Hyderabad as also I am grateful for your trust on me. Your vote to the PPP would start an era of progress as the regions has seen enough of the divisionary politics.”
He said the people of the area have been suffering and making sacrifices but they have never bowed down to tyrants, dictators.
He said he has brought a public economic contract to the people besides pledging to increase the amount of Benazir Bhutto Income Support Card while adding he would build three million houses for the people in the country.
The former foreign minister said, “the PPP knows how to fight inflation, unemployment and poverty so it depends on people now to give enough votes to the party for their better future.
For education, he said before soon, there would be a university in every district of Sindh in which quality learning would be promoted.