QUETTA: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that his party would form the government across the country after sweeping the next general elections.
“PPP stalwart would lead the next Balochistan government as the chief minister,” Bilawal claimed while addressing an exclusive party function in Quetta today (Sunday).
The function was held at Jattak House on Sariab Road in connection with leading politicians from different political parties joining the PPP. They included Balochistan former chief minister Nawab Sanaullah Khan Zehri and former federal minister Gen (retd) Abdul Qadir Baloch.
Bilawal said the new additions would help the PPP become stronger and win the next elections. “The manner in which you have joined the party, we will give strength to each other and will work hard side-by-side and struggle,” he told the new entrants.
“In the coming general elections — in the whole country but especially in Balochistan — we will establish a PPP government and elect a jiyala chief minister and find solutions to Balochistan’s problems,” he added.
With Zehri and Baloch part of the PPP, Bilawal said it would now reach every district and area of Balochistan and if the locals supported it then “no power in the world can block our path.”
He thanked the people of Balochistan for supporting his grandfather, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, in the past, saying that the PPP has always worked towards the welfare of the poor and the needy.
“We started the Benazir Income Support Programme to pull people out of poverty,” he said, adding that with the exception of the PPP, all other political parties in the country are trying to snatch the rights of the people of Balochistan.
He further said that it was the PPP that increased employees’ salaries and pensions in the past, adding that it is the “only party that understands how to give the people of Balochistan their due rights.”
Taking a jibe at the PTI-led government, Bilawal said that people have realised that the “real face of change is inflation, poverty, and unemployment.”
