Unannounced election campaign of political parties

Despite the general elections are looking far away, many of the political parties started unannounced election campaign.

The PML-N and the PPP, the two major parties of the country, are busy in highlighting their development projects and making promises to undertake more if they are returned to power.

The ruling Pakistan People’s Party is making efforts to turn the tables against its traditional rival in Punjab, the most populated province in the country.

For this purpose, it has inducted ten new ministers from Punjab to the cabinet and is currently focusing on Southern part of the province.

Nawaz Sharif, the chief of the PML-N, has meanwhile attempted to make a dent in Sindh through alliances with former politicians belonging to the PML-Q and Mumtaz Bhutto’s Sindh National Party.

In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the PML-N has succeeded in winning over the erstwhile chief of the PML-Q along with his group in the provincial assembly while it has recruited political figures from some of the key tribes besides a former provincial governor in Balochistan.

It changed its previous stance, opening its doors to practically all for PML-Q leaders with the exception of half a dozen who are still considered intolerable.

In the meantime, Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is emerging third largest force in the country. It held massive rallies at all provincial headquarters while organizing public meetings in the interiors of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Moreover, a number of widely known political personalities from the PPP, PML-N and PML-Q have joined hands with the cricketer-turned politician.

The opposition instead of moving ahead to march on Islamabad is reaching out to electorate, which is commendable. At the same time, the rallies and processions indicates that they do not want to disturb peace.

The disturbing faction is the tendency to politicize issues that require resolutions through constitutional and legal ways.

The better option is to leave the creation of the Seraiki province to the next elected-government which might be able to able to fulfill the conditions required under Article 239(IV) instead of promising, as the president did so.

He promised the creation of the province before the elections and to include some non-Seraiki districts also in it to make it feasible.

Furthermore, the two major parties should stop exchange of accusations and counter accusations, particularly on decisions of the Supreme Court and purely public issues.

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Posted by Faisal Farooq on May 1 2012. Filed under Opinion, Pakistan, Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.