PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Friday said that the party’s “historic win” in the NA-249 by-election held a day earlier in Karachi “proves that the people no longer backing the government”.
“The people of Karachi have sent a clear message to the puppet, incompetent government that they have been rejected,” the PPP chairman said.
His remarks came during a post-victory press conference in the city.
“This win is a win for the entire city,” a double-masked Bilawal said, adding that the victory marks a new trajectory for politics in the city, one based on “democratic forces”.
“This regime’s stronghold [has been broken] due to the PPP’s consistent opposition and democratic strategy.
“We not only dealt the government a defeat in the by-election throughout the country, but then in the National Assembly, the Chairman Senate, and then the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate elections,” he said.
Bilawal said that with the win, the PPP “proved to the naysayers” and the “propaganda” peddlers that “whoever works hard and stands by the poor” will emerge victorious.
