Bhutto to replace Shah as opposition leader in NA

Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will replace Khursheed Shahs as the leader of the opposition in the National Assembly, according to the latest reports.

This announcement was made by Shah himself just a day after PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari announced that Bilawal will contest a by-election for a parliamentary seat from Larkana which is also the hometown of the Bhutto family.

While this came as a surprise for most of the people, the decision was being contemplated by the party for a long time.

“Bilawal Bhutto will be the leader of the opposition and I will assist him as his adviser while his father will also guide him on parliamentary politics,” Shah told journalists in Sukkur on Wednesday night. “[Bilawal’s sister] Bakhtawar Bhutto will also contest the next general elections.”

As of now it is not clear when the move will take place but the decision is surely final.

When Shah was asked about the four demands put forward by his party, he said that PPP has made these demands for the sake of people of Pakistan and not to secure any sort of political interests.

“We are going to put enormous pressure on the government by staging rallies and initiating a mass contact campaign. Bilawal Bhutto will address these rallies and mobilise public during the campaign which will start from Punjab in January, 2017,” he added.

According to some analysts, Shah was just a puppet for the government and not an effective opposition leader, but now with Bilawal in the house, the PPP wants to project itself the ‘real opposition’.

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