Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Patron-in-Chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has assured flood victims of Punjab Province that his party would not leave them in the lurch.
Former prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, National Assembly Opposition Leader Syed Khurshid Shah, PPP Central Information Secretary Qamar Zaman Kaira, PPP Punjab President Manzoor Wattoo and other party leaders received Bilawal Bhutto Zardari at the airport when he arrived here on Thursday afternoon. Later, he left for Chiniot in a helicopter to visit the flood-hit areas.
According to party sources, Bilawal was briefed about damages caused by floods in Punjab Province. The party chairman confirmed in a response that the PPP had already dispatched 30 truckloads of relief items for the flood victims of Punjab while 470 more trucks would be dispatched within a few days to meet the immediate needs of calamity-hit people.
On this occasion, when the issue of provision of shelter to flood victims of Punjab was raised by leaders, especially on the persuasion of PPP Punjab President Manzoor Wattoo, Bilawal also ordered immediate purchase of tents worth Rs 50 million to meet temporary residential needs of the victims as their homes have been washed away.
During his visit to the flood-effected areas, the PPP leader, by setting aside all protocol procedures, got mixed up with flood victims and even did not hesitate entering floodwater at one point to express total solidarity with the victims.
Flood-hit victims, both men and women, were grateful to the PPP leader, who had come all the way from Sindh Province to share their difficult times with a pledge that the PPP would ensure their quick rehabilitation with honour and dignity.
While sharing his views with the flood-hit people in Chiniot, a party statement issued here said, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari urged all sections of society to forge unity in order to meet the challenges of calamity that had struck again the province of Punjab in particular.
Accompanied by Raja Pervez Ashraf, Khursheed Shah and Manzoor Wattoo, Bilawal returned to Lahore where he would stay at Bilawal House in Baharia Town. Sources said that Bilawal would also attend a dinner and meet with party leaders from different districts. They also said that Bilawal would visit Muzaffargarh District today (Friday) to distribute relief items among the flood-hit people. He would return to Lahore the same evening for his departure to Karachi later in night.
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