LAHORE: Pakistan People's Party Punjab President and Federal Minister for Kashmir & Gilgit-Baltistan Mian Manzoor Ahmad Wattoo has said the PPP will form the next Punjab government by defeating the PML-N with support of its coalition partners.
Addressing a luncheon in the honour of journalists at a local hotel here on Friday, he said there was no differences between the PML-Q and mutual discussion for seat adjustment for general elections was in progress with the PML-Q.
He said President Asif Ali Zardari always followed the code of conduct and the party would finalise a strategy about the Election Commission's directions for the president about his political activities.
Wattoo said the party workers welcomed him warmly and the opposition was confused about his nomination as PPP Punjab president.
He said he would never respond to Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah or the Sharif Brothers and he believed in continuity of democracy in the country.
He welcomed positive criticism of the media on political parties and the governments.
Criticising the Punjab government on constructing metro bus system, he said it had spent Rs 70 billion on one road but it ignored destructed road network across the province.
He said it was responsibility of the provincial government to look after health, transport and education system but now every government department was needed to be corrected.
He appealed the Supreme Court to take suo moto notice on such programmes which were against the public interest ,including spending Rs 70 billion on a single project in the provincial capital.
The minister said the PPP was the only party which had sacrificed lives for democracy, adding the PPP programme would be introduced in every house.
He said the PPP was the only representative party of workers and labour class.
He said price control was a responsibility of the provincial government and it had failed to control the prices of commodities.
Wattoo said the PPP was supporting millions of families without any discretion through the Benazir Income Support Programme.
To a question, he said the PPP was ready to finalise the accountability bill but the PML-N was not sitting with the PPP to resolve the issue.
To another question, he said the government would take decision after statement of the PML-N president Nawaz Sharif in which he had accepted the investigation by the FIA.
PPP Punjab General Secretary Tanvir Ashraf Kaira, former general secretary Haji Aziz Ur Rehman Chan, Special Assistant to prime minister Ch Aslam Gill and PPP Lahore General Secretary Zekria Butt.
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