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Addressing students convention in Karachi, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari calls for restoration of student unions in every province like Sindh
He was speaking at a mammoth students convention under the aeges of Sindh People’s Student Federation (SPSF) at Karachi Arts Council Auditorium.
He said the SPSF office-bearers and workers had through years of unshaken nerve-writhing struggle taken the right to form a union of which they had been deprived by was dictator Ziaul Haque.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto in her first term had restored the student unions along with the labour unions, but under a conspiracy the government of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto was toppled and the government that followed imposed ban on student unions.
The PPP chairman said that any 18-year-old could participate in the election of the Prime Minister, meaning he could choose the Prime Minister of the country, be prepared to fight in war situations, by taking up arms against India but when it comes to choosing his own representative, he has no choice left for a change.
He said that Pakistanis got this country not as a result of any war or violence but as a result of a peaceful democratic struggle under the leadership of Quaid-e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Quaid-e-Awam Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto gave the precious gift to the nation in form of democracy and gave every citizen the right to vote.
He was of the view that the biggest atrocity against the youth of this country was that an attempt was made to suppress their voice.
He lamented that the young people aren’t allowed to talk about their own problems. Some frustrated elements are predominantly obsessed with a negative idea that country’s youth shouldn’t get involved in mainstream politics.
They are the advocates of zero politics in universities as if doing politics is either a bad taboo or a crime.
“Doing politics is the right of the youth and doing politics is their most powerful weapon.”
He said that the youth with right to vote and do politics is more powerful than tanks and armored vehicles because he can change the entire scenario which tank can’t.
The PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that we wonder why there is so much violence and barbarism in our society. The politics of religion and ethnicity get space because student unions were banned.
By banning student politics for their own benefit, some elements not only harmed the youth of country’s academic institutions such as colleges and versities but also inflicted irreparable loss to the society.
He said that the ever escalating fee graph of educational institutions is naked to all eyes. The way the state is being run, and graduates are being deprived of jobs opportunities instead of creating job opportunities, the students will now speak and draw attention to such issues.
The PPP chairman said that cases of harassment are being reported from educational institutions, but it was a great injustice that those cases would be investigated by those who belonged to the same institution and they won’t do justice at all.
He said that the fees graph is forced to be higher without taking the students on board. They also face similar injustice with regard to imposition of same curriculum is imposed across the country.
“Student unions are our first step, and when the students are organised, they will fight for the solution of their problems, but if there is a PPP government, you will run the government yourself,” he added.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that since he took over the organisational responsibility, the PPP’s priority is the public health system. Despite limited resources, it has created world-class institutions in the field of health.
He asserted his dream to establish more institutions like NICVD and Gombat in the field of health. We will also equally work in the field of education.
He pointed out that most of the universities in the country were established during the PPP government. We will work harder and strive for 100 percent free of cost education in future government educational institutions. Though, not possible to achieve this target overnight but since we are dynamic young people so we will try hard for it. Our goal is to establish at least one university or campus in each district over the next five years.
Highlighting his party’s future plans, he said his government would set up youth centers in every district, providing space for cultural and sports activities as well as career counseling. Students work hard to get a degree, but then they need career counseling.
He said that history has shown that PPP always provided employment. The actions of Quaid-e Awam Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto are part of
history, while for Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, she
was famed that she would come and bring employment.
He said that the role of students in the struggle against Yahya Khan or dictator Zia has been historic and exemplary. The purpose of depriving the students of their rights was simply that some elements want to see a non-political society in the country. So that it will be easy to control this society. Today, due to the selected government, which has led to skyrocketing inflation, unprecedented unemployment rate, increase in fees of educational institutions is talk of the town while country’s foreign policy has been compromised and this has opened a venue for the youth for struggle against it. Part of the unfinished mission of Quaid-e Awam Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto has been completed in the form of revival of Students Union.
He said that it was being propagated all over the country that the PPP needed feuds and elites, while they did not know that the
PPP was in fact a party of the SPSF. The fact is that the feuds need PPP, instead.
He said that February 27 march of the party will carry the demands for restoration of students union all over Pakistan.
https://www.ppp.org.pk/pr/26297/