Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Wednesday unveiled a ten-point election manifesto targeted at the poor of the country.
The PPP leader, who aims to become prime minister after the February 8 elections, promised free education, health, cash handouts, and food for farmers and laborers.
Bilawal addressed an event in Garhi Khuda Bux on the 16th death anniversary of his mother Benazir Bhutto who was assassinated on December 27, 2007, in Rawalpindi.
“It will be in our plan to double the salaries within five years. We will provide 300 units of solar energy to the underserved free of cost,” he said.
He promised to provide a free-of-cost health facility to the masses in every district across the country.
The PPP chairman unveiled a plan to build 2 million homes in the flood-affected areas in Sindh.
Taking on his political rivals, he said that the PPP always wanted elections compared with other parties who attempted to extend the date of elections or snatch nomination papers from their political opponents.
“Our message to other parties is to contest election against us despite using others’ shoulders to do politics,” Bilawal added.
In an apparent jib at both Khan and Nawaz Sharif, Bilawal said that one political leader was contesting elections to get out of jail while the other was doing it to avoid going to jail.
Without naming PML-N, he said that the PPP formed a coalition government to oust Imran Khan, however, he claimed that “they [PML-N] was never interested in democracy or to control inflation. We have now decided to part ways with them.”
