PPP won’t be able to defend ‘rule in stronghold’ Sindh in polls: Abbasi

ISLAMABAD: PML-N leader Hanif Abbasi on Monday claimed that the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) would not be able to defend its “rule in stronghold Sindh,” saying there will be a coalition government in the province as a result of the general elections 2024.

Speaking during a talk show at private TV channel on Monday, Hanif Abbasi claimed that the PPP is ‘dying’ in Sindh and the PML-N will gain “a good number” of seats in the province.

“Even if the PML-N does not win from Sindh, it is certain that the PPP will not emerge victorious from the province,” he added.

Abbasi went to say the PPP did not have any public support in Punjab particularly in Lahore, adding that it will be a surprise if the Bilawal-led party wins a seat from the provincial metropolis.

Responding to PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s recent criticism of the PML-N supermo Nawaz Sharif and President Shehbaz Sharif, the PML-L stalwart said that Bilawal was himself a foreign minister in the coalition government of Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM).“He (Bilawal) had a ministry and was involved in all the policy making decisions,” the PML-N leader said.

He said that now the PPP chairman is criticising Shehbaz Sharif but few months back, he used to admire the PML-N president on floor of the National Assembly. The PML-N leader said that Nawaz Sharif is going to be the prime minister of Pakistan for the fourth time.

Abbasi said that he and other colleagues will welcome the party’s decision to make Maryam Nawaz as Chief Minister (CM) Punjab. “The party has not decided the fate of Maryam Nawaz so far but we will surely welcome her as CM Punjab,” the PML-N leader added.

Earlier on Sunday, Former Federal Interior Minister and PML-N Punjab President Rana Sanaullah said that the party would win the upcoming general elections with a thumping majority due to its popularity in the masses.

Addressing a worker convention organized under the auspices of Central Jamiat Ahle Hadith Pakistan in Faisalabad, Rana Sanaullah said that the country was making tremendous progress under the leadership of Mian Nawaz Sharif before 2018 when an ‘incompetent’ person was imposed on the nation who inflicted the country with economic and moral crises.