PML-N most popular political party in country: Shehbaz

LAHORE: Chief Minister Punjab Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif has said that after Senate elections, the success of a candidate backed by PML-N in by-election of Sargodha is the manifest of public trust over party's policies and a triumph of politics based on the principles of public service, trust and transparency.

In his statement issued here on Monday, the Chief Minister congratulated the PML-N backed candidate Yasir Zafar Sandhu as well as the party workers and said that after success in Lodhran, by-election of Sargodha had reaffirmed people's trust over the PML-N leadership and their policies.

The conscious people have shown the mirror to the elements doing the negative politics of falsehood and allegations. The elements involved in the politics of agitation, chaos and sit-ins have been defeated in Lodhran and Sargodha.

The results of the by-elections are writing on the wall for such elements involved in the politics of chaos. By rejecting such elements, people have given a clear cut message that there is no room for politics of anarchy.

The Chief Minister said that public service is pivot of the politics of PML-N and due to it; people have given it precedence in every election. The people are desirous of national development and prosperity and recent bye elections have proved that the masses want a continuity of PML-N's policies. He said that PML-N is the most popular political party in the country due to its positive style of politics. The elements engaged in leveling baseless allegations will not get anything except a sense of penitence. In the next elections, people will reaffirm PML-N’s policies through their votes, he added.

The Chief Minister said that loyalty to the PML-N runs in the blood of the people and they have given mammoth acceptability to this party due to its practical steps for public welfare. He reiterated that well being of the masses and improving their quality of life is the priority agenda of the PML-N and added that projects aimed at giving a respectable social status to the general public through improvement in quality of life will be accelerated after getting an opportunity of public service again. He said that defeat has become the fate of those who have remained involved in sit-ins and politics of agitation because change is ensured through practical steps instead of hollow slogans.

The practical steps of the PML-N government are a guarantee to national development and this is the real change at the grassroots. Leveling baseless allegations and negative politics is not public service because positive behaviour results in public service and national development. He said that hearts of the people could be won by prioritizing the public service. "My heart beats with the people and I have always remained busy in serving the masses, he said.

The Chief Minister said that so-called claimants of change had nothing to offer to the masses. Niazi Sahib had wasted five years in sit-ins, lockdown and the politics of allegations.

Instead of serving the people in his province, Imran Niazi tried to obstruct the journey of development in Punjab as well and due to it, people will not forgive such elements who only wasted the time of the people. He said that development work in Punjab is an example of its own and we shall go in the public court with full confidence in the next general elections. If the voters have selected us in 2018, then the journey of national development would be carried out with more vigor and zeal, concluded the Chief Minister.