Daily Times

NAUNDERO: Agani community on Saturday parted ways with Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and announced to join Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) saying that the former has deviated from its slogan ‘takat ka sarchashma awam’ and has become a group of ‘flatterers’ and ‘selfish’ individuals.

While addressing a corner meeting held in village Agani alongside Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) candidate for NA-200 Rashid Mahmood Soomro and PTI candidate for PS-10 Ameer Bakhsh Bhutto, Agani community head Rais Hazar Khan Agani said that PPP became a party of ‘flatterers’ and ‘selfish’ people and its slogan of ‘takat ka sarchashma awam’ died after the martyrdom of Benazir Bhutto.

He claimed that no development work was carried out in any union council of the entire Larkana district after 2013 elections and the situation of roads, drainage, cleanliness, education, health and other fundamental facilities remains woeful. Rais Agani further claimed that after governing five years in the center and ten years in Sindh PPP only introduced the concept of corruption by eliminating party’s ideological slogans like ‘roti, kapra, makan’.

Taking jabs at PPP Co-head Asif Ali Zardari, Agani said that there is no Bhutto in PPP anymore and that Zardaris have occupied it leading to the peoples party losing its fundamental political structure. He then announced his departure from the party to PTI.

MMA candidate Rashid Mahood Soomro said that in 2013 elections, PPP secured 3 million votes, while opponents got 3.6 million votes, therefore all opposition forces have gathered on one Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) platform to defeat PPP and end corruption from Sindh.

PTI candidate Ameer Bakhsh Bhutto said that there was no reason to postpone elections. He said GDA candidates were being garlanded everywhere and their opponents were being ‘welcomed’ with stones which was GDA’s moral success.