PESHAWAR: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari rejected the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), saying that the party will not accept election through such machines.
Addressing a political rally in Peshawar, Bilawal Bhutto said that the PPP will also challenge the use of EVMs in the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
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While criticizing the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government, the PPP chief said that the ‘real face’ of change is record inflation, poverty and unemployment. Bilawal alleged that the “selected” government did not allow the PPP to hold a rally in Peshawar. He said that like the PTI, the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) rally in Peshawar was a failure. The PPP chairman said the people of Peshawar are with the Pakistan Peoples Party.
Bilawal Bhutto said that the present government has hurt both the rich and the poor because of its “incompetence”. He said that the “The burden of ‘PTIMF’ deal has been shifted to the common (wo) man, which we have been opposing for last three years, this deal is illegal.” He said that the PTI government has failed in every field. Bilawal alleged that the democratic, human and economic rights are being violated in the new Pakistan and every Pakistani knows that the real face of change is record inflation and unemployment.
Chairman PPP said that the game is being played in the name of Overseas Pakistanis. He said that PPP wants clean and transparent elections “There should be a separate electoral college for Overseas Pakistanis. Overseas Pakistanis should have their representative in Parliament,” Bilawal said.
Bilawal said that the present government has bowed down to the terrorists, who are these people to negotiate with the killers? Those who are involved in serious crimes should be punished. “These people have martyred the children of APS but now the PTI government is negotiating with them,” the PPP chairman said during his address.
Bilawal Bhutto strongly condemned the conspiracies, saying that those who make tapes should keep releasing tapes while the PPP will form the next government with the people’s power.