Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is seeking to step into the political battlefield for the first time in the next elections due in 2018. The chairman of Pakistan People’s Party, Bilawal Bhutto hinted at such a possibility during a luncheon discussion with journalists at the Bilawal House. Bilawal further hinted that he may contest the elections from the NA-207 constituency in Larkana from where Shaheed Benazir Bhutto used to stand in election.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has steadily become more and more prominent in his role as the chairman of PPP after the end of former president Zardari’s reign. Although he is still young and inexperienced in his political career, he is looking to fill the giant empty boots left by his slain mother and lead his party from the front under the guidance of his father though he still has a long way to go before that.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said during his talk that his party also had rservations over the results of the 2013 elections but had accepted the results for the sake of democracy and to save the system. He also termed the PTI and PAT protests going on in Islamabad as non serious political activity and he said that the media was responsible for prolonging the protests because they had given them too much coverage. Bilawal also dismissed the statements of MQM leader Altaf Hussain about the division of Sindh along administrative grounds, saying that Sindh was a historical entity and cannot be divided.