The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is the only party that is seriously showing the way forward to solve the problems faced by Pakistan. Wahab said this while addressing a press conference on the lawn of the Frere Hall .He said PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari had on December 27 in Garhi Khuda Baksh renewed the pledge of allegiance with the country by presenting a 10-point agenda for the upcoming elections.The mayor said that if the PPP came into power, it would implement that agenda and show that they had the skill to get the 25 million people of the country out of hunger, poverty, unemployment and lawlessness.This country did not belong to the elite, and 99 per cent of its people had the right to the public money, he said, adding that the PPP had been saying for the past 50 years that the source of power was people.
“Our ideas are convincing the people. The philosophy of the People’s Party and its leadership is charismatic,” Wahab said.He was of the view that people were now out of the spell of propaganda against the PPP and they would vote for the party because of its agenda based on service and development.
The mayor’s representative for political affairs, Karamullah Waqasi, PPP Deputy Parliamentary Leader in Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) City Council Dil Muhammad and others were also present on the occasion. Wahab said the general elections were a few weeks away, and every political party was presenting its manifesto to the public, but instead of giving a strategy to solve public problems, other parties were only putting up pictures of their leaders and making promises.
On the contrary, he remarked, the PPP had not only talked about the past but also about the future and told the people how their problems would be solved. The people are witnesses that we have fulfilled the promises we made in the past, which increased our credibility among the people, he said.
Highlighting the 10-point manifesto of the PPP, Wahab said that at present, the salaried class was in much trouble due to inflation. He added that Bilawal had promised them that their salaries would be doubled in five years.“We made this promise in the past when we increased salaries by 150 per cent, after the recent floods in the districts of Sindh, the government of the Peoples Party gave a plan to build 21 lakh houses to help the affectees and now we will build 30 lakh houses for people,” he said.Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Imran Khan, he said, had made promise to give jobs and houses, but that turned out to be a false promise.
Under the PPP manifesto, 300 units of free electricity would be provided to farmers, Wahab said, adding that the Sindh government had completed the first power project through Thar Coal in Islamkot and provided 100 units of free electricity to all the houses in the region.Bilawal, he said, had raised concerns on global warming during the floods, and for the first time, the major countries of the world had decided to establish an environmental change fund from which affected countries would get money. “Beside Thar coal, we will use wind and solar power to provide electricity to other districts in the future and we have started implementing it in Karachi.
