Shehbaz Sharif claims PML-N will ‘bury PTI party forever’ in the upcoming general elections

RAWALPINDI: Opposition Leader in the National Assembly and President of Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif has claimed that his party will bury PTI party forever in the upcoming General Elections in 2023.
Addressing to the party workers convention in Rawalpindi, Shehbaz Sharif has congratulated the party for achieving significant success in the recently held cantonment board elections.
In cantonment board elections held on September 12, PTI had secure 63 seats while the PML-N won 59 seats from across the country.
“Our success in the cantonment board elections is not ordinary,” he said, noting that the party had performed even better in Rawalpindi than Lahore, a city considered their stronghold. “We wiped out the PTI,” he declared.
Speaking of the 2023 elections, he demanded that they be held transparently, adding that he holds these expectations from Election Commission of Pakistan, the judiciary and all institutions.
Shahbaz said that three years ago, when the PTI came into power, “having this selected prime minister selected destroyed Pakistan”.
The Opposition leader said that Pakistan “has no respect” and has been left “penniless”.
“They have ruined the economy with the loans they have taken,” he added.
“And this selected prime minister then says ‘you must not panic’.”
Shahbaz urged the people to “take a stand” against soaring inflation.
“They said they would provide millions of jobs, and have instead deprived hundreds of thousands of employment,” he said.
He said that the poor man today is left to his devices, with “no (affordable) medicine” and with the prices of flour, pulses and sugar rocketing sky high.
“Our 2018 manifesto promised homes for people […] had it been our government in power today, we would already have provided hundreds of thousands of people homes,” Shahbaz claimed.
“Had it been our tenure, hundreds of thousands would have been granted jobs,” he added.
Shahbaz also criticised the rupee’s depreciation, saying that the dollar seems to have “sprouted wings”.
“We must drown out this government with the tidal wave of the people,” he urged.
Need for unity within party ranks
PML-N stalwart Khawaja Asif, who addressed the gathering prior to Shahbaz, echoed similar sentiments, saying that the people have grown tired of the growing inflation and poverty.
He told the party workers to be at the ready. “The elections can be called at any time,” he said, adding: “It will soon be time to send the government packing.”
Asif urged party workers to create unity within their ranks. “Any discord that exists, is not among workers. It is among the leaders. And this discord must be put to rest. We must have unity if we wish to win the government mandate come election time,” he stressed.
The PML-N leader called upon “all supporters, from Karachi to Peshawar”, to stand behind party supremo Nawaz Sharif.
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