Federal Minister for Information Senator Pervaiz Rashid on Tuesday claimed that Lahoris would not vote for Imran Khan’s candidate in NA 122 as he insolently calls names to Metro bus – the mode of transportation of millions of Lahoris.
“Metro bus has provided expedient transport facility to the mothers, daughters and sons of Lahore who had to face the overcrowded vans in the past while the PML-N leadership has provided the voters an honourable source of transportation in the form of Metro bus”, he said while responding to media queries at a local hotel on Tuesday.
The minister said the Metro bus project reflected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s love and Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s toil which had turned Lahore into a model city of gardens, flowers and roads, adding that Metro bus commuters would vote for the PML-N.
“The real contest in NA 122 is between Metro bus commuters of the PML-N and Pajero riders of PTI as millions of Metro bus commuters will beat dozens of Pajero-riders,” he added.
To a question, he said the PML-N leadership had multiple achievements to flaunt while the PTI had nothing to offer to the masses in the by-polls of NA 122.
Referring to Imran Khan’s speech at Doongi Ground in Samanabad area the other day, Rashid said Khan had no achievements in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to win the voters in NA 122.
He said Khan had failed to deliver in KP and raised empty slogans while a contestant presents party’s achievements to the voters during an election campaign.
To another question, he said, “What could Khan offer to the voters of NA 122 when his KP government has not been able to achieve anything in KP as there are no milk and honey canals for masses, books for schoolchildren, free medicine to the sick and carpeted roads in Peshawar.”
About KP Chief Minister Pervaiz Khatak’s campaign in NA 122, the minister said the KP CM should have brought with him pictures of Peshawar in order to compare and contrast the standards of cleanliness and beauty of the two cities.