KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto on Saturday asserted that his party was ready to back Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) candidate for the prime minister’s slot if the Opposition oust the incumbent government.
Addressing a press conference alongside party leaders in Karachi, the PPP chairman pointed out that in a democracy, anyone having the majority can decide who the next prime minister becomes.
“PML-N clearly has the majority; PPP and other Opposition parties are ready to sacrifice the prime minister’s seat for them,” Bilawal said, stressing the major stakeholder should announce its candidate for the office. “We plan on not repeating the mistakes we did in the past,” he added.
Bilawal further said that his party has decided to launch a “democratic attack” against the government and urged the other Opposition parties to adopt a unified stance of ousting the incumbent PTI-led administration.
He ruled out opting for undemocratic tactics to achieve the goal of dismissing the government. Bilawal also advised PTI’s allies, especially the MQM-P, to join hands with the anti-government movement as the PPP is all set to begin its “awami march” tomorrow.
“However, if Prime Minister Imran Khan decides to resign voluntarily, then there won’t be a need to hold the long march,” the PPP chairman added.
Referring to PTI’s Sindh Huqooq March, Bilawal said that the PTI leaders say that they have come out for the rights of the Sindh people and hence, kick-started their march from Ghotki; however, they are the ones who did not give the farmers their due share.
“The people of Sindh will respond accordingly,” he said. Terming the march as a “political circus” he said that PPP has no threat from “a group of political orphans” gathered in Sindh.
