Current rulers only eyed power, achieved it through rigging: Bilawal

GHIZER: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said on Monday that the current rulers of the state were only concerned about coming to power, which they achieved through rigging of elections.

Speaking at a rally here, Bilawal said the incumbent rulers were not interested in resolving public issues.

"Their destination was power, which they achieved by rigging [the polls]. They do not do politics for the people, rather they take U-turns after making promises," he said.

The PPP chairman said the politics of incumbent rulers revolves around themselves.

"Their economic policies have inundated the masses with a tsunami of inflation," he said, while criticising the government. "Those lecturing on national honour are touring countries for taking loans."

Bilawal said the politics of Peoples Party is centered around the poor and oppressed, noting, "We initiated Benazir Income Support Programme during Asif Ali Zardari's reign."

The PPP chairman said his party provided constitutional rights to the people of the province.

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"Peoples Party made Gilgit-Baltistan autonomous by bringing reforms here, gave subsidy on wheat," he noted, promising to keep struggling for constitutional, political and democratic rights of the people of the region.

Bilawal said he had come to the people of Gilgit Baltistan for the first time, but not the last. "I want your favour and support," he told the participants.

The PPP chairman was addressing the rally on the third day of his Gilgit-Baltistan tour.

On Sunday, Bilawal had slammed the government saying that it had taken more than a hundred U-turns before the completion of its first hundred days.

Speaking at a rally here, the PPP chairman had said that members of the ruling party didn't know anything other than engaging in altercation with opponents.

"Consultation, tolerance and parliamentary ethics will not work in 'Naya Pakistan', rather whatever Khan sahib would say only that would happen," he had lambasted.

Bilawal had said his relationship with this valley spanned over three generations and he inherited the love for Gilgit-Baltistan from his mother and grandfather.

He had further vowed to keep struggling for strengthening Pakistan and putting an end to exploitation of masses.