Co-Chairman Pakistan People’s Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has asked party workers to strengthen the hands of the new provincial party organisation announced by him on Tuesday and to mobilise workers to meet the political challenges that lie ahead.
“I stand with this organisation and ask everyone to support it unreservedly,” he said while speaking with a group of senior party leaders of the province who called on him in Zardari house in Islamabad Wednesday evening.
Those who called on him included former provincial President Senator Khanzada Khan, former president and senior minister Rahimdad Khan, ex-Deputy Speaker Faisal Karim Kundi, ex-MPA Zamin Khan, former MNA Noor Alam Khan, new president Humayun Khan, Senator Farhatullah Babar and political secretary Jamil Soomro.
Bilawal Bhutto also congratulated new office bearers and asked them to undertake a tour of the entire province to meet and mobilise the workers.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that after the events in connection with the party’s founding day celebrations in Lahore beginning on Nov 30 he will visit of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa to meet workers.
He said that he envisioned growing political space in the province as a result of the disillusionment of the people and directed the new office bearers of the party to strive to capture that space.
The provincial leaders thanked the Chairman for the trust reposed in them and urged him to enter into electoral politics at the earliest. The year 2017 should be the year of the beginning of the co- chairman’s electoral politics, they said.
Bilawal Bhutto also invited them to dinner to which party parliamentarians and former prime ministers Yousuf Raza Gilani and Raja Pervez Ashraf beside other senior party leaders were also invited.
