ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari Thursday lashed out at Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz for being hypocritical, saying that Sharif’s “duplicitous policy” can no longer work.
“Your duplicitous policy will no longer work. Either you should play your role as an Opposition party or accept that you are the government’s facilitators,” the PPP chairman said while addressing a workers’ convention in Rahim Yar Khan.
Bilawal also asked the PML-N leadership to “respect the vote” and use it against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government.
“We would force PML-N to play its role as an Opposition party and oust Chief Minister Punjab Usman Buzdar. You cannot back out from your promise of using your vote to oust [ the Punjab government] after seeking respect for [people’s] vote,” said the PPP’s young Chairman as he ended his visit to Southern Punjab districts.
The PPP chairman said the Opposition should unite and struggle against the government, as he predicted that Buzdar was a mere “puppet” and he would be sent packing soon.
“The people will never forgive you [PML-N] if you back out now … you will have to do something now, otherwise your hypocrisy will be exposed before the people of Punjab,” Bilawal said making another attack on the PML-N leadership which has decided not to oust Buzdar whose weak governance was auguring well for the PML-N.
Bilawal urged the PML-N to join forces with PPP to oust Buzdar and Prime Minister Imran Khan, saying, “When the ‘puppet’s puppet’ falls, so will the prime minister” — implying that the chief minister is the premier’s “puppet”.
‘RESIGN OR USE YOUR VOTE’:
The PPP chairman said only together can the Opposition save Punjab, as he told PML-N that Buzdar could only continue his reign as the chief minister if the Shahbaz Sharif-led party had its own interests behind his rule.
“You have to do one of two things — either resign or use your vote (to oust Buzdar).”
Bilawal warned that the PPP would take revenge from prime minister Imran Khan sooner or later and mentioned that when the time comes, PM Imran Khan “would be standing alone with no one by his side”.
The PPP chairman said his party would form a government in the Centre and the provinces, as Pakistan was aspiring for a “people’s government”.
“The incumbent government has not fulfilled any promises […] all of Imran Khan’s promises turned out to be false.”
