KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) unveiled its detailed manifesto on Saturday with the slogan “ChunoNaiSoch Ko”
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on X, formerly Twitter, wrote, “Please visit http://voteteer.com where you will find both PPPs 2024 detailed manifesto & our AwaamiMuashiMuahida.
Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari also wrote in his post on X.”The PPP is the only party with a plan to combat poverty, unemployment & inflation,”
The manifesto mainly emphases on dealing with poverty and providing facilities to the working and lower class. It also outlines the healthcare facilities, education, food security and women’s empowerment.
The PPP also promised to double the actual incomes of wage earners by ensuring growth, investments and job creation as a real-time priority. It said that the minimum wage will be increased in real terms by 8% every year to take it to the living wage.
The Bilawal-led party will also launch the “BhookMitaoProgramme” which will ensure food security, by aiming to make nutritious food available at affordable prices, boost domestic production, subsidise local producers, and connect women with the market economy as active entrepreneurs.
The manifesto said that the PPP has always seen housing as a right, hence, it will provide homeownership for the most vulnerable including the poor, landless, and working classes.
The PPP, as per the party’s manifesto, will provide a stipend for one year through the Youth Card to educate young men and women also small loans will be given to poor women through the Waseela-e-Haqprogramme.
According to the manifesto, PPP will issue social security cards for the country’s labour class. Through this card, the working class can pay their children’s school fees, avail of health insurance and obtain old age benefits
