New Delhi: PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has said that if his party wins the General Elections next month, he will take up a role similar to Congress President Sonia Gandhi – that of an advisory figure.
Though he expressed his apprehensions that the elections would be held at all, he said, "If our party wins a majority in next month's elections, I will not take a cabinet post but will act like Sonia Gandhi, as an advisory figure without a seat in Parliament."
The elections which were earlier scheduled for January 8 were put off till February 18 following Bhutto's assassination on December 27 and the ensuing violence that left scores of people dead.
Zardari said the night before Benazir Bhutto was assassinated he had begged his wife on the phone to stop holding election rallies and let him take her place.
"She had just addressed this public meeting in Peshawar where they'd caught this suicide bomber," Zardari said.
"I told her, for God's sake be careful, but she said, 'what can I do? I have to go and meet my people.'
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