Bilawal vows to stand by people’s demand to halt contentious canals project

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Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has pledged to stand with Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif to stand behind the government’s plans to stop the government’s plans.

“Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif [Sahab]Addressing a public gathering held on the occasion of the 46th death anniversary of former Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the PPP chief said, “If we are not only for us but the demands of the people … if we remain united as brothers, the project should be withdrawn.”

The federal government has planned to build six canals on the Indus River to irrigate the Cholistan desert. This is a project that was rejected by its central ally PPP, and other Sindh nationalist parties.

According to official sources, the cost of Cholistan Canal and system is estimated at Rs 211.4 billion and through this project, thousands of acres of barren land can be used for agricultural purposes and 400,000 acres of land can be brought under cultivation.

Almost all political and religious parties, nationalist groups and civil society organizations have held mass rallies against the controversial plan.

Bilawal -led party has repeatedly expressed reservations over the project, President Asif Ali Zardari has warned the government that some of its unilateral policies are causing “severe tension” on the federation.

Addressing a public gathering today, Bilawal warned that PPP would not allow any “irresponsible decision” about water distribution and would resist any attempt to divide the country through controversial projects.

He highlighted that PPP has a long history of fighting for proper distribution of water. He reminded that he was former Prime Minister and his mother, Benazir Bhutto, who, despite being out of power, stopped the controversial dam project.

He now questioned the lecturers on the issue and said, “Who stopped the dam’s controversial plan? Have you forgotten? It was Shaheed Benazir Bhutto who stood against him.”

Confirming the PPP’s position, Bilawal said his party has been fighting against the controversial canals since its inception. “It should be normal [retired] The unilateral decision on Musharraf’s canals or PTI founder’s policies, PPP has always resisted unfair water allocation.

He criticized the government’s unilateral approach, saying that the PPP had already rejected the project at the Central Executive Committee (CEC) meeting. “The plan was also opposed at the joint parliamentary session of President Asif Ali Zardari.”

“We are unhappy with the government on the canal plan, which is why we are not part of it,” he added.

He further demanded that the authorities review the report of the Indus River System Authority (IRSA) on the water shortage, which they claimed to highlight the water shortage not only in Sindh but also in Punjab.

He criticized political opponents for suddenly raising a voice on the issue, “I was the first person to raise a voice against the canal plan, and now he has woken up.”

“When the canal projects were started through prisoner No. 804, PPP was the only party that resisted him while others remained silent,” Bilawal said in a job in PTI founder Imran Khan.

The PPP chief also said that his party would not allow the completion of the project. He stressed, “We have rejected the project before, and we will continue to reject it.” He also warned that those trying to divide the Indus River to create regional rifles would not succeed.

“They want to break the Indus River to divide us, but we will not let that happen,” he said, adding that nationalist groups united against the project and demanded the government to allow Sindh to flow freely.

Bilawal called on the federal government to listen to the people of Sindh and Punjab about the distribution of water. He said, “We are the people who have always called ‘Pakistan Khape’, but justice in the distribution of water is non -dialogue.