Before 1947,
Sub-continent being governed by British from whom we got our political system
which was pretty good at the start. Political parties having their ideologies
and were stuck to it along to work for the welfare of its fellow citizens. But
after certain period something went wrong or we have these germs left inside so
deep that it took time to re-surface again that of being governed by someone or
follow personalities not ideology which turned the great political
(ideological) Parties to a monarchy (being run by a single family).
Sub-continent
is one of the few region where this happened as Congress and Muslim League has
been buried and their name plat are being used as a license to do politics and
in Pakistan it is clear evidence of that every politician consider it party as
their personal property which should be a public property. When someone leaves
a party or being expelled from his party, they start their own party naming
after the previous one with an addition of his surname or last name. We have almost
a dozen Muslim Leagues and half a dozen PPP’s. Thanks God in last election Aftab
Sherpao re-registers his own party as Qaumi Wattan Party while abandoned his
old PPP (Sherpao) & now there is one less PPP. When will this madness ends?
For sure u want to do politics let assume for the welfare of your fellow citizen so why not start with
unique name why to copy other one.
Election
Commission of Pakistan (ECP) work as regulator for our political system. ECP
having 162[1] registered political parties. Few
are politically organized but a few are actually mainstream political parties.
Those who called themselves mainstream on national level is not well organized
and those who are well organized on national level are not proving themselves
as mainstream as they are failing again and again in polls at every level.
One of the
most redundant thing political parties do in campaign is preparing and declaring
manifesto as their voters don’t care what they have announced in manifesto and
they also don’t care about their own manifesto because here in Pakistan
comparing the government work with their manifesto is not one of the criteria
for re-election. As much I understand, illiteracy and less political awareness
is main reason for this.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
(KP) is the only exception where they also don’t care much about manifesto but
they do demand performance and development. If any MNA/MPA is sincere to its
constituency, he can win election as many times as much he contest like Aftab
Sherpao in Charsadda, Abdul Akbar Khan in Mardan who successfully withstand to
every opponent. Ameer Haider Hoti(Ex CM) who was only MNA for ANP in 2013
election had secured both his seats i-e provincial and national assembly while
entire ANP was wipe out in KP in 2013 election because he had delivered in his
constituency not in entire province as CM.
People in KP
don’t care much about personalities which they do care about is performance and
development which makes KP the most politically diverse province of Pakistan.
Local Government election is clear evidence of it. Select any two cities for comparison
visit and analyze it. You will understand it. For my Article I will take
District Peshawar and Mardan. PTI was able to form government in Peshawar where
they started major development after taking charge of government in KP while in
Mardan three parties’ coalition managed to form government where ANP was
leading them as home town of Ex-CM who did most of the development in the city.
In Peshawar ANP also have stalwart like Bilour Family and PPP have Arbab family
but they failed as people voted on their performance not following any one
party and the same goes with rest of province. This is also why one party
didn’t manage to form government again.
In other
provinces, case is much different as they do follow personalities not any ideology
or not like KP, vote on performance base. For example, Sindh where PPP is
selling the same manifesto from its inception but no actual work on the ground
and people still coming and voting them as they are currently doing in ongoing
Local Bodies Elections (LBE). Despite of the fact that NAB and FIA are doing
corruption investigation in almost every provincial department with the
assistance of Rangers.
But this is
how our fellow voters votes and after election we curse those are in
government.
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