The Disadvantages of overthrowing a Democratically Elected Government
Friday, October 28th, 2011 7:49:36 by Syed Hassan Bokhari
The Disadvantages of overthrowing a Democratically Elected Government
Nowadays, protesting at everything that goes wrong has become more of a trend rather than a need in Pakistan. Supporting this statement, we can look at the recent protests by students against their respective education boards and basically any problem that
goes on, instead of dealing with it in a proper, civilised manner, violent protests are given priority.
Destroying property like government offices will only lead to further load on the already over burdened public expenditure instead of solving problems. Violent protests have never provided any solution in the end, other than people being hurt and property
being damaged.
Recently, political parties like the Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) have announced to take out rallies in order to oust the sitting government.
Something they continue to forget is that this is a democratically elected government, which they at some point supported.
Nawaz Sharif, a two time Prime Minister and head of the PML-N has already faced being overthrown in government twice by military dictators, which gives off bizarre signals as to why he is still so power hungry when he also faced numerous corruption charges
and fled the country through an agreement.
Imran Khan on the other hand supported Pervez Musharraf coming into power when he asked for a vote of confidence in 2002 and again showed how democratic he was when he decided to boycott the 2008 general elections, which again proved to be a miserable failure
in terms of his political manoeuvring and capability.
What these politicians must learn is that this country has witness nearly 40 years of martial law dictatorship, which has provided nothing but destruction to this country by the incapable generals which choose to rule the masses by force.
If these parties wish to oust a government, like that of the PPP, which enjoys a majority in three out of four provinces along with Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir, they should think about using a more constitutional method instead.
The problem is that the constitution in Pakistan is like what Zia-ul-Haq, a military dictator who single handily wrecked havoc throughout this nation and burned until he was no more after executing our first democratically elected PM, termed it to be, “A
piece of paper which can be ripped whenever I want”.
The PTI, which does not enjoy a single parliamentary seat anywhere and most probably might not in the future, does not have any right of ousting the government due to the lack of any representation.
While the PML-N can choose ask for a vote of confidence again from the government, which if they consider being able to do, will work and the government will dissolve, but knowing that the government enjoys a large majority, failure awaits such parties.
Gathering a crowd of 200,000 most certainly does not represent the entire nation of Pakistan and overthrowing a government by the use of force will only lead to more problems. Waiting for their turn to impress and convince the people should only be done
during the time of general elections.
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