LAHORE: Brushing aside tall claims and repeated “predictions” by certain opposition leaders, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday said the incumbent government would not only complete its five-year term but also come into power again after the 2018 polls due to its development agenda.
“Three-and-a-half years have passed. One-and-a-half years are remaining. It will follow the elections and God will bestow power upon us once again,” the prime minister said while addressing a public gathering after launching work on Rs 24 billion Lahore Eastern Bypass at Kala Shah Kaku.
He said a wise political leader was the one who perceived the public desire, who just wanted deliverance from poverty, hunger, unemployment and inflation, besides wishing for colleges, hospitals and motorways.
The prime minister, who was accompanied by Minister for Defense Production Rana Tanveer Hussain and other party leaders, told the gathering of thousands of party workers that in the by-polls in Jhelum and Burewala, people had proved what they desired.
He said that two so-called leaders had been predicting the fall of the present government and trying to launch a movement against it.
“You could have come into power in 2013 but now your chances are over,” he remarked, addressing an opposition party without naming it.
Nawaz Sharif said that in TV talk shows, a politician from Rawalpindi had repeatedly been predicting the government’s fall in March, June, September and October and in summer or winter, but the government would complete its remaining term.
“You should get ready for next election. Next time, you will not even get a chance to become member of the (National) Assembly,” the prime minister said.
He said the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) believed in the politics of values, not power, and it “never tells lies to the people”.
He said that as per their commitment, power plants were being installed countrywide, and reiterated that load shedding would be eliminated by 2018.
The prime minister told the gathering that the government was going to build 40 more hospitals across the country with an accumulative capacity of 10,000 beds. Referring to his Thursday’s visit to Gwadar and Sibi, the prime minister said that Balochistan was going to become a prosperous province.
