Addressing his maiden public meeting in Hyderabad at a ground along the Bypass road here Wednesday night, Bilawal criticized the PPP's political opponents and narrated the development works which the party's provincial government has carried out in Sindh.
The PPP's supporters from the 9 districts of Hyderabad division gathered in the ground to watch the party's young leader speaking at the public meeting.
"PPP is a federal, democratic and republican party which wants to establish a society of equality and tolerance in Pakistan. The PPP wants equal distribution of wealth. The PPP wants to make Pakistan a sovereign and strong state," he said.
The PPP chairman said the Sindh government had been working to improve the education and health sectors while a special focus was being given to the girls education by means of different incentives.
"The new hospitals, trauma centers, kidney, liver and cardiac facilities which earlier existed only in Karachi are being established in rest of Sindh," he told.
Bilawal paid tribute to the martyrs of Oct 18, 2007, Karsaz incident in which a terrorist attack killed around 180 people and injured 500 others.
He recalled the political struggles and sacrifices of his grandfather former Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and his mother former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who both headed the PPP.
He said Bhutto preferred martyrdom but he did not bow down his head before a military dictator while his mother despite threats to her life returned from exile to Pakistan and embarked upon a movement to restore democracy in the country.
Bilawal questioned the PPP's supporters that would they forsake the sacrifices of his grandfather, mother and other martyrs of the PPP and let the flag of political struggle fall down. "Shall we allow the politicians who were raised by the dictators to win?" he asked.
Bilawal said the PPP supporters should not only mourn deaths of the martyrs but should also play their part in bringing the people to the book who were responsible for their deaths and for denying democracy to Pakistani people.
The PPP chairman said some people use corruption only as a slogan and they think that end of corruption would provide a solution to all the problems.
"But they don't know that corruption is a symbol of a rotten and exploitative system. Until the system of plunder remains, until the peasants, labours and the poor remain oppressed under cruelty and until people remain deprived of basic rights, till then this problem can't be resolved," he contended.
He added that putting an end to the problems which exist in the country not a change of faces but a change of the system was required. "Our struggle is against this system, against this exploitation," he reiterated.
The PPP leader decried that the Indus River system Authority (IRSA) was not providing due share of water to Sindh, pointing out IRSA's recent announcement of reducing Sindh's share by 20% to 30% for Rabi crop season.
"This will cause huge losses for agriculture in the province," he warned. Biawal acknowledged that though the country faced a shortage of water, he blamed the authority for its alleged unjust water sharing.
He said Sindh was located in the tail-end and which gave the province a higher right over the river water.
"What justice is it that when there is excess water, they release the water towards Sindh and drown the province and when there is shortage, they leave the people thirsty," he observed.
Bilawal emphasized on adopted water conservation methods in order to make an efficient use of low supply of water and told the people about the measures which the Sindh government had taken in that regard.
Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah recalled the Oct 18, 2007, incident and told that after the first explosion the supporters ran towards the truck in which Benazir was travelling.
"And then the second bomb went off killing 180 people but even then there were other supporters who tried to reach the truck to ensure that their leader was safe," he added.
Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah questioned the youth, intellectuals, writers, poets and the opinion makers to answer why the incidents which killed the PPP's leaders and their families had happened.
"Why shouldn't I ask you that why July 5, 1977, April 5, 1979, July 1984 killing of Shahnawaz Bhutto, September, 1996, killing of Murtaza Bhutto and Oct 18, 2007, incidents happened. Why only the PPP's leadership had been targeted this way?" he asked.
Former Chief Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Senior Sindh Minister and President of PPP Sindh Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, Secretary Information of PPP Moula Bux Chandio and other party leaders also addressed the public meeting.
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