Bilawal advises PML-N not to boycott general election

Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said the PML-N knows it is losing but this does not mean it should take itself out of the race. Talking to the newsmen at Zardari House in Nawabshah, Bilawal Bhutto said that those who had failed to make their manifestos public wanted the elections to be delayed but there was no room for late elections.
Bilawal said he believed that the people of Pakistan were with him and his party. "We must strive to adopt democracy in the country," he said.
He went on to say that everyone knew how acute the water shortage was but the PPP was the first to raise the issue. "Our party strengthened the banks of a 100-kilometre-long canal and set up reverse osmosis plants across the province," said Bilawal, adding that Asia's largest reverse osmosis plant had been set up in Nawabshah. No plants were set up in the other provinces, he reminded the media persons.
Repeating his earlier assertions that the PPP was the first to raise the issue, he said the party's senators had spoken about the water crisis in parliament but no one listened to them. "Now that the elections are nearing, everyone seems to have remembered the water crisis," he said.
Bilawal said PPP was the only party that had taken steps to resolve the crisis. One of those steps was the construction of small dams in Sindh, he said.
The PPP chairman started his election campaign for the July 25 general election from Karachi on Sunday.
He has since visited Hyderabad, Thatta, Tando Jam, Hatri Bypass, Mithiani, Hala, Nawabshah and Sanghar among other districts.
After completing his tour of Sindh, the 29-year-old is expected to head to Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Earlier on Tuesday, Chairman PPP Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) was puppet alliance and several such alliances were made before the election.
Addressing his supporters alongside senior party leaders Naveed Qamar and Murad Ali Shah, Bilawal criticised the GDA. "Some people want to derail the democratic process," the PPP chairman lamented.
Criticizing former PM, Nawaz Sharif, Bilawal Bhutto said the nation does not care why someone was disqualified. Bilawal added, "We want a solution to Pakistan's problems." "I am not contesting the general election to win or lose but because my mother was assassinated," he added.