(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Thousands of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) supporters yesterday attended the first mass rally held by the son of murdered Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, 26, is tipped to become the next leader of the People's Party (PPP), currently headed by his father Asif Ali Zardari.
He told supporters: "If you want to save Pakistan, the only answer is Bhuttoism and the PPP."
The impact of the PPP public meeting launching formally the political career of party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto, has caused considerable commotion in the ranks of Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehrik Insaf (PTI), which is giving the impression as if it is scared from it.
Some PTI leaders used their usual peculiar language against the PPP while referring to its public meeting. They believed that the Karachi rally was in response to the PTI's scheduled meeting in Larkana on November 21.
However, the PTI is not the first non-PPP party that is holding a public meeting in Larkana, the hometown of Bhuttos. Nawaz Sharif had organised a number of such rallies there in the past.
The main contribution to the PTI show will be made by Mumtaz Bhutto, who has successively lost in all elections, and the spiritual followers of Vice Chairman Mehmood Qureshi, spread across interior Sindh. However, political sources say it will be quite a feat if they together will enable the PTI to win even a single seat from this area.
The anguish of PTI stalwarts and trolls was specifically noticeable on the social media. One leader wrote that the PPP rented people at Rs1,000-Rs3,000 each to fill the rally-cum-coronation and show of power and money made fun of poor people of Sindh.
There was also a barrage of attacks on the PPP for using official resources for the public rally. Misuse of government resources by any ruling political party for its activities is uncalled for and deserves condemnation, but this principle is required to be applied to every party in power.
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