The constituents conveyed their displeasure to the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz-nominated candidate Sardar Jamal Khan Leghari on his return to the area after a span of five-year time on Wednesday.
Sardar Jamal Khan Leghari was stopped by local residents during his visit to Ronghan area of his constituency in NA-192.
In a video which went viral on social media, it can be seen that the people of the area remarked that they are seeing the face of their elected representative after five years. Leghari in his response said that he came to the area to convey his condolences rather than asking for votes.
“How come you remember to convey condolences all of a sudden?” a person among the crowd is seen asking the former legislator.
Leghari stubbornly told the crowd that they are taking too much pride on a ballot paper.
During the conversation, Leghari repeatedly told the crowd to stop making his video.
“I gave you 42 kilometres road here,” he claimed.
To his surprise a member of the crowd said that the people of the area got the facility not because of his personal favour but due to democracy in the country.
To which he reacted by saying, “Shut up. I gave you the road. We all know how democracy works here.”
The protestors told the PML-N ticketholder that they will respond to him on the polling day.
Published in Daily Times, June 21st 2018.
