PDM's success in by-elections is victory of democracy: Gillani

Dunya News

Yousaf Raza Gillani said PDM is a political reality.

LAHORE (Dunya News) – Former prime minister and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) senior leader Yousaf Raza Gillani has on Wednesday termed the Pakistan Democratic Movement’s (PDM) success in the by-elections as the victory of democracy.

The erstwhile premier talked to media outside an accountability court in Lahore and stresses that PDM is a political reality. The PPP leader said, for the supremacy of the parliament, he met Leader of the opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif.

Yousaf Raza Gillani said also held meetings with Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) Chairman Akhtar Mengal and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazal (JUI-F) Chief Fazal-ur-Rehman and decided to move forward by leaving the past behind.

The former PM said we had made an alliance in the past as well for the Charter of Democracy, and are together again. Yousaf Raza Gillani also condemned horse-trading in the Senate polls.