PPP starts Punjab polls preparations after SC’s verdict

GARHI KHUDA BAKSH/Lahore– Criticizing superior judiciary, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said, the undersized pronounced the verdict of the death sentence.
Addressing the 44th anniversary of former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Bilawal said that Bhutto’s martyrdom day is being celebrated and no one knows those who hanged the great leader. The leader of the people lives in our hearts all the time, he held. He said that Bhutto Shaheed thrived the poor farmers instead of the big landlords and gave rights to the farmers, and labourers.

Foreign Minister Bilawal said that Shaheed Bhutto laid the foundation for making the country a nuclear power. He gave the country the Constitution. He said that former President Zardari sent the reference of Bhutto Shaheed which has been pending for 12 years.

He also appealed to the Prime Minister to send the reference again. He said that people abroad ask him that General Zia had attacked the constitution, the right to vote and democracy. Zia had martyred Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto when Pakistan People’s Party resisted.

He further said that dictators were imposed on us in the past and the government of the first woman prime minister lasted only 11 months while that of the dictator stayed 11 years. The Supreme Court upheld General Zia’s martial law which he criticized. We have made countless sacrifices for the upliftment of the Constitution, he asserted.

Mr Bilawal said that it would have been better if the ‘beloved’ had been placed in the Prime Minister’s House with a sherwani. He said that he will accept the decision of the larger bench. He said that our graveyards are full. He demanded of the Chief Justice and other judges to save the country.

Chairman Bilawal further said the fight for the throne of Lahore will sink the whole country. We want to send a message to all stakeholders to save democracy. He said that when Iftikhar Chaudhary was made a hero and authoritarian thinking was born and the judiciary was destroyed. Who will save the Supreme Court from the Supreme Court, he questioned.

Earlier,Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leadership has started the preparations for the elections in Punjab after the verdict of the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

the PPP leadership has decided to field its candidates in the Punjab Assembly elections with full enthusiasm.

The channel report said PPP Women Wing head Faryal Talpur called a Zoom meeting of all seven divisions of Central Punjab tomorrow (Wednesday).

The report said the PPP leadership has also issued instructions to the party chapters including Lahore Urban, Lahore Rural, Sahiwal, Gujranwala, Sargodha, Faisalabad and Rawalpindi divisions to start preparations for the elections.

The divisional and the district presidents and general secretaries will give a briefing on the election preparations in the Zoom meeting.

As per the report, the PPP candidates of 202 constituencies of Central Punjab will also be finalized in the Zoom meeting.

PPP leader Faryal Talpur has called the meeting of Rawalpindi, Sargodha and Faisalabad divisions on Thursday to take the decision about the final candidates.