MARDAN: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has asserted that the Opposition’s Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) is not a ‘democratic movement’ without the PPP and Awami National Party (ANP).
Talking to journalists in Mardan, Bilawal Bhutto said that for the past one year, the Opposition alliance had been crying assembly resignations. “Why don’t you resign then?” he asked, adding, “You are not resigning and wish to contest the elections as well.”
Talking about the party’s future plans, the PPP chairman said that neither does the party wish to rejoin the alliance, nor has it turned in a request for the same. “We tore up your show cause notices. Why are you saying again and again that you will not take us back?” he asked.
The PPP chairman, however, clarified that PDM is a political alliance, and although there may be political differences, “we are one in the parliament”. “We have given the Leader of the Opposition the authority to make decisions on behalf of all of us,” he added.
Bilawal said that he had been telling these “revolutionaries” that had they turned in their resignations from the assemblies, they would have left the field wide open for PTI “We will not make the mistake of boycotting the Azad Kashmir elections,” he added.
He further said that over the course of Pakistani’s history PPP had stood up against three dictators. “One dictator who threatened our supporters is out on exile today while our supporters are still living in their homeland,” the PPP chairman said.
