With the political temperature increasing with every passing day ahead of the February 8 election, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari Tuesday fired a fresh salvo against Pakistan Mulsim League-Nawaz (PML-N) censuring the latter for creating a narrative suggesting its supremo Nawaz Sharif’s return to the Prime Minister’s House for the fourth time.
Addressing a political gathering in Dera Ismail Khan, Bilawal stressed that the contest in the upcoming elections is between arrow and lion — the election symbols of the PPP and the PML-N, respectively.
“The PML-N is giving the impression that Nawaz is [going] to become the country’s prime minister for the fourth time.
“Do [people] wish to see politics of hate continue?” the PPP leader said while questioning whether the people want to see the same person become the country’s premier again.
His remarks come as his party has arguably emerged as a key rival of the PML-N in its stronghold of Punjab, and is striving to strengthen its position ahead of the polls for which the province has become a cauldron of political activities — owing to its share in the National Assembly as resulting significance in forming of the government in the centre.
