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LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif Monday said that defeat has become the fate of those who have remained involved in sit-ins and politics of agitation because change is ensured through practical steps instead of hollow slogans.

After Senate elections, success of a candidate backed by PML-N in the by-election of Sargodha is the manifest of public trust over our policies and a triumph of politics based on the principles of public service, trust and transparency, he said

According to him, the practical steps of the PML-N government are a guarantee to national development and this is the real change at the grassroots. Leveling baseless allegations and negative politics is not public service because positive behaviour results in public service and national development.

Shahbaz maintained that hearts of the people can be won by prioritizing the public service. “My heart beats with the people and I have always remained busy in serving the masses,” he said.

He added that so-called claimants of change have nothing to offer to the masses. “Niazi Sahib has wasted five years in sit-ins, lockdown and the politics of allegations. Instead of serving the people in his province, Imran Niazi tried to obstruct the journey of development in Punjab as well and due to it, people will not forgive such elements who only wasted the time of the people,” he said.

Shahbaz said that development work in Punjab is an example of its own and we shall go in the public court with full confidence in the next general elections. If the voters have selected us in 2018, then the journey of national development will be carried out with more vigour and zeal, he added.

Congratulating the PML-N backed candidate Yasir Zafar Sandhu as well as the party workers, he said that after success in Lodhran, by-election of Sargodha has reaffirmed people’s trust over the PML-N leadership and their policies. The conscious people have shown the mirror to the elements doing the negative politics of falsehood and allegations, he said, adding: “The elements involved in the politics of agitation, chaos and sit-ins have been defeated in Lodhran and Sargodha.”

He further said that public service is pivot of the politics of PML-N and due to it; people have given it precedence in every election. The people are desirous of national development and prosperity and recent bye elections have proved that the masses want a continuity of PML-N’s policies, he said.

Moreover, Shahbaz has expressed a deep sense of sorrow and grief over the deaths of Jam Saqi, a political leader and Dr Bilal Aslam Sufi, former president of Flour Mills Association.

In his condolence messages, he has extended sympathies to the bereaved families and prayed to Almighty Allah to rest the departed soul in peace.