Pakistan
‘Will not take dictation from anyone’; PPP resigns from all PDM posts
Karachi: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has announced to resign from all posts of Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) as a protesting gesture following the issuance of show cause notice.
While addressing a presser, PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that his rejects the so-called show-cause notice and demanded an unconditional apology from PDM to the ANP and to the PPP for this obnoxious attitude.
“The Central Executive Committee (CEC) has rejected the show-cause notice of PDM. There is no show cause notice in political alliance. All of our party members are resigning from the positions of PDM as a protest,” he said adding that Politics is done with equality and respect.
Referring to the issue of resignations, Bilawal said that the party leadership has reached a consensus that they would not resign from the assemblies at this stage, terming the move as option of last resort.
“Those who want to resign from the assemblies can do it. No political party has the right to impose its decisions on other party. We believe that resignations should be the last resort like an atom bomb. The by-elections have proved ruling party has lost majority support of people,” he said.
He further said that PPP believes in politics of equality and justice adding that their doors are open for everyone.
“We are ready to talk to anyone who wants to fight against this incompetent government,” he added.
PPP's stance that opposition should not abandon the Parliament and the Senate battleground had been vindicated. If we had listened to other political parties and left the grounds of senate and by-elections, it would have harmed the process of democracy. Even when Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) was in power, we protected the Parliament,” he said.
Referring to the 2017 census results, Bilawal said that his party had conditionally accepted the results of census 2017 initially, but it was on the basis of the results of the census that the country's resources were distributed to provinces.
"It doesn't count the people actually living there and consuming figures. It was PPP's demand that the de facto results be included in the census,” he said asking government to discuss census results during a Parliament’s joint session.