SIALKOT: PMLN President and National Assembly Opposition Leader Shehbaz Sharif has said that PMLN voters turned the birthplace of PTI, the Cantonment, into a graveyard for PTI in the recent Cantt Board Elections.
Speaking at a Worker’s Convention in Sialkot, Shehbaz said that Pakistan Tehreek e Insaaf was hatched in the Cantonment boards but they couldnt even win there when a free and fair election was held. He said the elections were held in a transparent manner and nobody influenced the outcome of the polls. The people of Pakistan had had enough of this government that had pushed them below the poverty line and driven majority of the population into unemployment.
The PMLN President said this victory was the result of the tireless efforts of party candidates, leaders, workers, voters and supporters under the vision and mission of PMLN Quaid Nawaz Sharif. The results of these elections show that the people of Pakistan were desperately wishing that the would be rescued from the horrific government that had made their economic survival impossible. The nation was nostalgic about the PMLN government under which sugar was Rs 52 and under PTI it now is Rs 110 per kg, he said. He went on to say that the PTI government knew nothing but to lie and rebrand PMLN’s public development projects as theirs. He reminded that Nawaz Sharof launched tge Health Card Scheme which Imran renamed as Sehat Card and said it was his government’s project. Imran inaugurates projects already inaugurated by Nawaz Sharif and later complains to his advisors that he wasn’t told.
Imran boasts of making Pakistan an image of tye Riyaasat-e-Madina, but he should be asked that was there ever a time in the Prophet’s Madina where people would starve, where there was no justice, where people were living under cruelty and misery like under the PTI government.
Shehbaz said, “This election is a unanimous rejection of the PTI rule by the people of Pakistan. Imran had held special meetings in Punjab Governor’s House that he wanted to win this election by hook or by crook. Imran had asked Punjab government and IB to do all they could to make it happen. But the people wish for PMLN government and Nawaz Sharif again because they remember how treatment, medicines, CT scans and dialysis at government hospitals were free. They remember how under PMLN deserving students were given laptops based on their performance which PTI dubbed as bribe. Should we have handed guns instead of laptops to this youths? Those youths are still using those laptops to pursue their education!”.
He reminded how Imran used to say that if National currency sees devaluation of a single rupee it means the government is corrupt; if electricity or petrol prices were increased by a rupee, the government was corrupt. Then what of today when rupee has fallen to 170 against the dollar, where petrol and electricity boms were dropped on people every other day. What happened to that rant of slapping $ 100 on IMFs face and now PTI runs to knock IMFs door for loans, he asked.
Imran left no stone unturned to torture Opposition even went to the extent of denying basic heating in jail to Khawaja Asif and others, mentally tortured Opposition politicians especially PMLN using every way or means. He lashed out at the PTI government saying had they focused in eliminating poverty, inflation, unemployment as much, it would have been a different story.
Shehbaz stressed that the people of Pakistan would not tolerate another rigged election, they would not accept another selected Prime Minister which is why the next elections must be 100 percent free and fair. The rule of law, the civilian supremacy and the upholding of the constitution were not political demands they were the right of this country and its people, he said. And if all this happens that’s what he meant by the reconciliation for which he was demonised. And even of he talked of reconciliation what didbhe get out of it he questioned. He assured that PMLN would sweep a free and fair election but if they were not held with 100 percent transparency, the party would not have any choice but to go the distance against a fraudulent system.
