MULTAN: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto on Wednesday challenged Prime Minister Imran Khan to vacate his seat and announce snap elections if he was confident of winning polls again.
“I challenge him that if he’s not a coward then leave the prime minister’s post and announce the election date, we will not need to carry out the protest march then,” the PPP chairman said while addressing a ceremony in Multan.
Bilawal further said that if Imran Khan was so confident that the people were going to vote for him again then he should announce early elections, “but he knows that the people were fed up with him”.
Speaking about the long march, Bilawal said the party’s Central Executive Committee (CEC) has decided that it would start its long march on February 27 from Karachi against the “incompetent” rulers and will take the prime minister head-on after reaching Islamabad.
He said that PPP exposed the PTI government on the first day of its tenure and was fighting it since then. “Other parties were not participating in the by-elections, however, the PPP stood its ground and fought against the PTI by not leaving the field empty,” he added.
The PPP chairman added that the march will be successful as “Imran has already lost the first round of local body elections”. Bilawal took a swipe at the prime minister and said that “Imran Niazi is running away after disqualifying Faisal Vawda to contest in the next elections.”
Bilawal said, “The hybrid regime tried to create false corruption cases against us but they’re yet to prove anything in court”. “According to Transparency International, Pakistan’s most corrupt government is currently sitting at the Centre,” he added.
The PPP chairman said that during the tenure of former army chief General (retd) Pervez Musharraf, “many such cases were created against us but we were innocent then and we are also innocent now”.
“Benazir Bhutto was declared innocent and the dictator has been declared a criminal by the courts… the people of Pakistan will never forgive Imran Khan [for what he has done],” he remarked.
Last month, Bilawal had announced that he will lead a “long march” against the PTI government from Karachi to Islamabad on February 27.
