- Says his ‘warm’ welcome in Lyari did not go down well with opponents
THATTA: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Monday said that after coming into power, his party would provide food cards to the masses.
Bilawal was speaking to his supporters in Gharo city of Thatta district while campaigning for the forthcoming elections. He said that they had presented their manifesto, noting that the party initiated revolutionary programmes like Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP).
“PPP has always served the people and now I will resolve public issues by myself,” he said and added, “We will provide food cards to masses through which they will get subsidised food.”
Bilawal told the participants that he needed their support and urged them to become his arms. “I want to change the fate of the country, and if the people are with us, then no one can stop us,” he said.
The PPP chief said that eliminating hunger was a part of his party’s manifesto. “We will open food centres in every area, which will be run by women.”
Undeterred by a mob attack on his caravan a day earlier during his electoral rally in Karachi’s Lyari neighbourhood, Bilawal hit the city’s roads once again early Monday.
“PPP does not believe in the politics of violence,” the PPP chairman said, as he stepped out of his car en route to interior Sindh to address supporters.
“My warm welcome in Lyari did not go down well with opposing parties,” he added.
Speaking to supporters in Quaidabad, he said that stones were pelted at his rally on Sunday under a conspiracy.
The PPP chairman is due to visit Sujawal, Badin, Tando Mohammad Khan and Hyderabad districts on Monday.
After Sindh, Bilawal will campaign in southern Punjab and then on to the rest of the country. A detailed travel log of the PPP chief is yet to be issued by the party.
