LAHORE: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will address public rallies in all Punjab districts starting from October this year.
PPP will initiate its first protest rally from Okara district as a token of solidarity with Anjaman-e-Mozaireen, a farmer’s body which has a history of struggle for the rights of this community.
This is also so because the PPP has made a policy decision to highlight the plight of farmers in its planned rallies to be held in rural Punjab. The momentum built through this activity will be converted into a full-fledged ‘Kissan movement’ against the government close to the next elections.
For urban Punjab, the party has plans to agitate the issues of labourers and the low-income working classes. A precise schedule of its public rallies in both urban and rural Punjab is likely to be announced after the Eid, party sources revealed.
It has been decided that new party organisations in Punjab districts will organise these political gatherings which are likely to be put in place by the end of current month. Party sources said that Bilawal will go to each and every district to address the rallies starting from central Punjab districts in the first place.
PPP’s Punjab leaders are confident that security issues will not come into the way of Bilawal this time to interact with the party men at the district level.
PPP’s decision of not coming on the roads and hold protest rallies instead comes after an assessment of the prevalent political situation which the party thinks will remain volatile till the appointment of a new army chief.
“PPP doesn’t want to destabilise the present government through street agitation. It will be tantamount to giving a justification to the third power to do adventure”, a party source told The Nation requesting not to be named. Also, Bilawal is going to celebrate Eid with the Kashmiris in Azad Kashmir to express solidarity with the Kashmiris across the border.
He would be visiting Kashmir for the second time in less than two months. Bilawal addressed a number of election rallies there in June and July this year.
