Pakistan: Wattoo sees decline in Imran’s popularity

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PPP Punjab President Manzoor Ahmad Wattoo has predicted that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan will not be able to prolong his sit-in and his popularity graph will eventually go down.

“Like Dr Tahirul Qadri, Imran cannot manage to prolong his sit-in. His popularity graph will eventually plunge to the lowest level as people are getting frustrated with his style of politics,” he said.

Speaking to reporters after the meeting of the party provincial office-bearers here on Tuesday, Mr Wattoo said Imran Khan should not have put his political career at stake by insisting on the resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif through the politics of sit-in. He argued as how the prime minister, having two-thirds majority in parliament and support of majority opposition parties, could tender his resignation.

He said the Nawaz government had made the lives of people miserable due to inflated bills and loadshedding. “A consumer who used to pay Rs5,000 electricity bill previously is now paying over Rs15,000 a month,” he said. He asked Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif to tell the people as why the PML-N government had failed to control loadshedding.

Shahbaz pegged a tent at Minar-i-Pakistan during the PPP regime to protest against loadshedding, he said while pointing out that outages had worsened during the last one and-a-half years.

Mr Wattoo formed monitoring committees to evaluate the performance of the party office-bearers in Rawalpindi, Sargodha, Mandi Bahauddin, Faisalabad and Sheikhupura.