LAHORE - Pakistan People’s Party Secretary General Jahangir Badar said democracy is the only thing which could keep the nation united. He was talking to the media before donating blood at a blood camp at Aiwan-e-Iqbal, organised by the PPP Lahore chapter on Thursday on the 59th birth anniversary of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Shaheed.
He alleged that Punjab’s rulers were enemies of democracy and wanted confrontation as well as dictatorship in the country.
He said the PPP always respected the judiciary and had accepted the court’s verdict in the former prime minister’s disqualification case.
In response to a question about the arrest warrant issued for Makhdoom Shahabuddin, he said the beauty of democracy was that elections and accountability ran side by side in it.
He said arrest warrants for former Indian prime minister Indra Gandhi had been issued even after she was in the government. To a question about rumpus in Punjab Assembly, he said the PPP could not support such incidents.
He expressed his apprehension that the confrontation among the political representatives could be converted into confrontation among the public on the roads.
He said the PPP had initiated the politics of reconciliation and provided an opportunity to all the political forces to come into the government.
Jahangir Badar said the PPP could respond to the attacks on it but it will not choose the path of confrontation for the larger interest of the country.
He said the PPP workers were fully committed that they will adopt democratic procedures according to the vision of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Shaheed.