Daily Times

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan Wednesday said that after coming into power following the upcoming general elections, his party will introduce a system where poor can have the opportunity to move to the upper strata of the society.

Addressing a rally to welcome Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) former leader Nadeem Afzal Chan in party’s fold, the PTI chairman said that until now the state has made rich-friendly policies but when his party will come in power it will cater to the interests of the poor. “If we come to power, children of farmers will get a quality education,” he told the rally. Being silent in front of the oppressors is a sin, he added.

Imran said that the sugarcane farmers are not getting the appropriate price from the mill owners, adding that he will put his maximum effort to get a better rate for the farmers. Taking a jibe at the PPP, he said it has moved far away from the Bhuttoism’s ideals. “Quaid called for a welfare state. I am loyal till I stand for the party’s manifesto but if I start making palaces on the money of poor, there is no need for the people to call me their leader,” he said. Poor in country don’t get basic facilities of health and education, he added. Imran said that Chan’s joining his party will be better for the people of Mandi Bahauddin and hailed the leader for carrying a ‘political background’. Speaking on the occasion, Chan said that he has left his former party for the sake of the people. “We are with Imran in his jihad against Nawaz,” he said. “None other than Imran can send Nawaz jail, and that is why I support him unconditionally,” he said. Chan said that he remains committed with the Bhuttoism ideology but if the PPP’s ideology is now Sharjeel Memon (a PPP leader facing corruption charges), then he is better without it.

Published in Daily Times, April 26^th 2018.