Fida Hussnain Lahore
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President and former Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif regretted over allegations of buying votes in NA-127, the constituency from where his party’s candidate Attaullah Tarar and PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari are contesting election.
“Contesting elections is the right of every person. Bilawal has the right to contest elections from anywhere in the country. We worked together during the PDM government. We had good relations. If he wants to contest elections from Lahore, Mianwali, Karachi, Quetta and Peshawar, it is his right. I am not talking particularly about him. But it is an extreme level of disrespecting votes if the money is being distributed to take the CNICs of the voters into custody just for votes. And therefore Nawaz Sharif had emphasized upon respect of the votes,” said the PML-N president while responding to a question about allegations of buying votes in NA-127—the constituency from where PML-N candidate Attaullah Tarar and PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari are contesting elections. He was addressing a press conference at the party’s secretariat in Lahore’s Model Town on Sunday.
“Everybody has the right to run his political campaign. But if this fact is right then it is tantamount to disrespect the votes,” he reiterated.
The response comes a day after the leaders of both sides accused each other of buying votes and taking oaths from the voters in NA-127.
Shehbaz Sharif also addressed Bilawal’s call for open debate, saying that he was just calling for comparison instead of debate. “Yesterday’s rain in Karachi exposed the situation there. It was a clear comparison. The women were seen inundated into the rain water there in Karachi,” said the PML-N president.
He said that tankers were being used here to sanitize the roads in Lahore and the same were being used in Karachi to supply water. He also mentioned different projects in Punjab including the hospitals and LWMC project in Lahore.
