PPP to win next election: Mukhtar

Defence Minister Ahmad Mukhtar said on Friday that PPP would win next general election despite the blame game against its leadership.
Addressing a stone laying ceremony of the expansion of Pakistan People’s Party Punjab office here, he challenged PML-N President Nawaz Sharif and Pakistan Tehrik e Insaaf leaders Imran Khan and Shah Mehmood Qureshi to contest joint election in Gujrat against PPP. “We will defeat them even they contest jointly,” he claimed.
He said President Asif Ali Zardari had made Shah Mehmood a leader by teaching him politics but, he alleged he (Shah Mehmood) had deceived the president and left the party. He said the tsunami of the PTI had already been washed away and now it was the era of “Jialas” of the PPP.
He said that no force could defeat the PPP in elections if the workers were with it. He assured his continuous financial support for the construction work of the PPP office.
Earlier, PPP Punjab President Imtiaz Safdar Warraich addressed the ceremony and said that conspiracies against the PPP did not have value as every party worker was ready to sacrifice even his life for the party.
He hoped that the PPP would win next election and complete its hat-trick by winning maximum votes consecutively in three polls. “Tsunami Khan could not win more than one seat till now,” he added.
He thanked Ahmad Mukhtar for his support for the extension of the PPP office and equipping it with latest facilities.
National Heritage Federal Minister Samina Khalid Ghurki, Deputy Parliamentary Leader in Punjab Assembly, Shaukat Basra and PPP Punjab General Secretary Sami Ullah Khan also spoke on the occasion.
Later, the defence minister performed a stone laying ceremony for the expansion of the PPP Punjab office.
Several PPP MNAs, MPAs and leaders including Mian Ayub, Saleem Urreman Mayo, Faiza Malik, Hasnat Shah, Ghulam Fareed Kathia, Usman Malik, Mian Hafeez and Zekria Butt were also present.