Veteran television actor Sajid Hasan announced during a news conference on Sunday that he has joined the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) along with his wife and brother.

The news conference, which was held at the PPP Sindh’s media cell in Clifton, was also addressed by party leaders Nisar Ahmed Khuhro and Saeed Ghani among others. Hasan said PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is truly a young political leader, much like the youthful leaders required in the country during the present times. “If there is any young leader present in the country, it is Bilawal.”

The actor said Bilawal is talented enough to make Pakistan progress, adding that he was impressed by the charismatic and dynamic personalities of the PPP’s late leaders Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto. The renowned TV personality said he will try to serve the people of Karachi in the best of manners, adding that the city’s people need to rise above ethnic considerations in order to ensure the country’s progress and development.

He said the PPP has always served best the cause to safeguard the rights of people belonging to different religions, adding that he has also observed PPP leader and former Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari very closely. Hasan said he is joining the PPP as an ordinary party worker.

PPP Sindh President Khuhro said different parts of the province are unduly being subjected to power load-shedding by the federal government without any valid cause. He said Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif should have changed his own name before coming to Karachi in line with his claim that he would change his name if his party failed to overcome the power load-shedding issue within six months.

The PPP leader said the power crisis in the province has created a water supply issue as well, and together both the problems have created crippling effects on the industries. He said his party’s government in Sindh has been trying its best to utilise the indigenous natural resources in the province such as wind power and Thar coal to generate electricity on a massive scale.

Khuhro said that all this is being done despite the fact that the federal government is solely responsible to end the menace of power load-shedding in the country. He said the provincial government has also been extending the maximum benefits and subsidies to farmers across the province, including the best wheat procurement rates being offered in the current season.

The PPP Sindh chief said his party’s opponents have no electoral agenda and programme on the basis of which they can secure votes from people and win seats in the next general elections scheduled to take place later this year.

Khuhro, who is also the Sindh food minister, said the current wheat procurement campaign in the province is being carried out by the provincial government to provide the maximum benefits to the growers.