Since elections have been the only way to step in the corridors of power, every political party in the world where ever it is and has a democratic system working in its country, they all always consider elections and election campaign a vital and most important tool to prove its support in masses & use all the methods to grab the support and votes. The same has been the case in Pakistan where political parties either they are religious or have somehow secular agenda, they all try their best to win massive support in pre-election campaigns through public gatherings, talk shows, Jalsas, corner meetings, pamphlets, print and electronic adds, last but not least car/motorbike rallies etc.
Contrary to this the ongoing election campaign lacks all these fundamental items of an election campaign, neither this ongoing election campaign has any festivity left, as still there seems no rallies, public gatherings or election camps having music in any of a province other than Punjab. Coming towards my party “PPP” whose leadership is being threatened continuously & recently Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan issued statement detailing PPP leadership on its top target. But the question that has been jumping in my mind is something else and that is the way PPP has been making its TV ads & election campaign, where rather than development projects more concentration has been given to Shaheed Benazir Bhutto’s tragic loss & assassination videos, seems my leadership has accepted the notion that the mandate which was given to PPP in election-2008 was all a sympathy vote because of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto’s assassination.
But I completely reject this notion as If 2008’s mandate was a sympathy vote then why PPP couldn’t manage to increase its seats when compared to its actual seats won in 2002. I have been witnessing a changed pattern & fashion in Pakistan Peoples Party’s election campaign as for the first time I am witnessing that every local leader & worker is desperate to be part of government & convinced that PPP would surely form the next government as well, but in reality PPP never contest elections to form government as in 70’s it was contesting against a powerful institution & a dictator Yahya khan, 80’s & 90’s right wing alliance of IJI then in 2002 MMA and now again nationalists & right wing parties united against Pakistan Peoples Party. Thus PPP always participated in elections & won with large majority even when there was allainces & state machinery was being used against PPP. Thus this is the 1st time when party contesting election to win otherwise in history its never contested elections to win.
Another changed style of PPP campaign which I am witnessing is lack of leadership, as the one who is considered our leader he has been stopped by judiciary to play his role in PPP & politics while his second in command and our beloved chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is facing extreme threats from Al-Qaida and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan due to which committed workers of PPP are not ready to welcome him in open public gatherings & corner meetings, But we can’t keep Bilawal Bhutto Zardari & his workers away from each other & there must be a strategy which help workers connecting with their leader & video conference is the best option for PPP in current circumstances. As this is the only option left for party leaderships who are on the hit list of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.
Malik Zameer Hassan Awan
Secretary Information.
PYO- Karachi Division.
Posted by Adnan A on April 27, 2013 at 7:33 pm
Malik Zameer Hassan Awan sahib, wake up please , can you name one thing that PPP did in last 5 years. PPP needs to stop playing the victim game and stop getting votes using names of dead corpses. Bilawal has no idea about needs of Pakistani people and has no personality or sense about how to relate to Pakistan’s problems.