SUKKUR: The Pakistan Peoples Party`s senior leader Syed Khurshid Ahmed Shah has reassured nation that no party or individual should have doubts about Feb 8 general election and they should know the polls will be held on time across Pakistan.

Shah told participants in a procession organised by his party in Salehpat town on Tuesday that Supreme Court of Pakistan had left no doubt in minds about the polls and given very clear passage thatgeneralelections would be definitely held in the country.

He urged political parties to leave politics ofdrawing room and take the field for polls. As time had changed now, no one could get himself or herself elected by getting ballot papers stamped for him or her, he said in a sarcastic tone.

He said that wherever they were going for electioneering, they had to inform people of their performance. Dictators too should be asked about their performance of 40 years. `The dictators spent 700 billion dollars during the 40 years. If such huge amount of money had been spent on Pakistani industries, many problems could have been resolved undoubtedly,` he said.

He said that PPP did not do power politics.

`Rather, we want power-ful government of people which can resolve problems of people and the country,` he said.

Shah said that PPP wanted to bring smiles and lights on peoples` faces. When the party came to power, it would resolve electricity problem by providing solar plates to people, he said.

He told party workers that PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari had promised that minimum wages of the poor would be doubled to at least Rs50,000. Under the party`s rule in the province, 28 water channels had been built, which irrigated150,000 acres of barrenland,he said, adding that more water channels would be built and fortified when the partycame to power for five years, he said.

He said that PPP founder gave constitution to the country and refused to leave his land when he was pressured to do so by the martial law regime. Those who defeated death lived forever and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had defeated death, said Shah, adding Bhutto never bowed his head before tyrants.

He said that Benazir Bhutto came back for people despite serious threats to her life and was made to pay the price with her life. They had done a lot but still much had to be done for people, he said and claimed that he had never told lies, nor done hypocrisy or put someone in jails.