Bilawal compares Imran govt with PPP past govts

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari compared Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government with PPP’s past governments and promised that "Roti, kapra aur makaan" will be provided to citizens the day the PPP comes to power.

“The policies of the right-wing parties have failed as only the economic policies of PPP can take the country ahead,” he said in a statement on Saturday while explaining how the predicaments in Pakistan’s current policies had affected livelihoods.

The PPP chairman highlighted that in the past, only PPP’s economic policies made a difference, as those policies had been formulated keeping in mind the common man’s monthly budget. “The policies of right-wing parties only benefit the rich and history stands witness to the ‘Roti, kapra aur makaan’ promises that the PPP fulfilled,” he added.

He said the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government, under Prime Minister Imran Khan, on the other hand, had increased inflation to an extent where the monthly flour needs of a family of 5 are met at Rs3,500 while during the PPP tenure, the flour needs of an ordinary family of 5 people used to cost Rs1,975 per month.

Drawing comparisons with the current inflation rate, Bilawal said during the PPP regime, an ordinary family used to buy children's clothes for Rs600, and now it costs it Rs3,600 today.

He said when PPP was ruling the country, a typical family of five used to pay an average of Rs3,500 house rent, but under the PTI, it costs them Rs22,000. “However, these alarming statistics will continue to worsen if the puppet prime minister is not held accountable,” he said.

While articulating comparisons between the PPP and the PTI, Bilawal emphasised how inflation caused by a global economic crisis during the PPP tenure was followed by a 59% increase in the common man's income.