PPP demands election within 90 days, Senator Nisar Khuhro

Liaquat Ali

“If the digital census can be completed within a month, why can’t fresh delimitation be held within 60 days,” asked PPP Sindh president Senator Nisar Khuhro.
Speaking at a press conference at Peoples Secretariat along with the party’s provincial secretary general Senator Waqar Mehdi, he said: “There’s no reason to delay the polls and the PPP is very clear about this. The polls must be held within 90 days.”

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He said that it was the primary job of the caretaker set-up and the Election Commission of Pakistan and the PPP hoped that they would do their constitutional duty.

Senator Khuhro also ruled out any threat to the party’s traditional mandate in Sindh where its rivals were indicating a larger electoral alliance in the province to “bring change” and form a coalition government after the general elections in their joint efforts against the PPP.

“There’s nothing new as we have been seeing such alliances against the PPP for the past many decades,” he said. “Despite all the efforts of the anti-democratic forces and tactics against the PPP, the people of Sindh have always voted for the PPP.”

He said that the anti-PPP forced never succeeded in defeating the party through ballot and democratic process. “The PPP rule in the province has strengthened democracy and provincial autonomy which has only weakened these anti-democratic forces,” he added.