Ruling PPP to Join Protests, Strikes in Sindh With PDM

Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) announcement has put the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in dire straits as it would set a new precedent by staging protests and observing strikes whilst its ruling in Sindh province.

PPP has extended its support to the PDM on its decision to hold countrywide strikes and protests.

However, it would be an unusual situation where a government would be holding strikes and protests.

Sources in Bilawal House told News360 that the Sindh government has left the decision of going on strikes and holding protests on PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.

It added that most of the ministers have agreed to submit their resignations to the party leadership too as decided in the PDM meeting.

In this regard, the Sindh Government Spokesperson Murtaza Wahab said that PPP was part of the PDM and it would abide by the decisions taken by the coalition.

Wahab said that wherever the demonstrations may be held against the incumbent government, PPP would participate in them.

Further, Hammad Rasheed, who is the President of Karachi Tajir Ittihad, a representative body of the traders, said the Sindh government held separate views regarding novel coronavirus when it comes to public gatherings.

He expressed that the Sindh government was frightening the people in the name of the pandemic. Subsequently, it is gathering people in PDM rallies.

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Hammad Rasheed ruled out possibilities of supporting any strikes and said that the traders would not back them.

He said that the traders had already born the brunt of the lockdown due to the coronavirus situation and were unable to tolerate any further closure.

Moreover, Sindh PTI Vice-President Haleem Adil Sheikh said that they were not afraid of PDM were cared for the masses.

He blamed the opposite coalition for putting pubic lives at risk.