One swallow doesn’t make a summer

Though Bilawal has started flexing his muscles by leading PPP rallies in Sindh but does one swallow make a summer? The political observers would closely monitor how effective is he in reviving his party in Panjab and what is the response of his party men and common man to his call because his political future largely depends on the renaissance of the PPP in the largest province of the country? Would he be able to wrest back political power from the PTI which at the moment has filled in the political vacuum created in the Panjab’s politics with the demise of the PPP during the last polls?
The cronies of his father who one can see standing or sitting on his left and right in his public meetings have a lot to live down. The people’s memory might be short but not as short as to forget quickly their financial shenanigans. Bilawal has been saying rather innocently in his public meetings that the PPP would have to do something for the poor. May one remind him that his party remained in power not once but four times between 1970 up till now. Why the hell did it pay lip service only to the cause of the poor, doing nothing or very little to ameliorate the lot of the teeming millions of the poor who don’t know where their next meal would come from? Why it is that politicians start remembering and shedding crocodile tears on plight of the have-nots when they are out of power or when elections are near?
Not only has the PPP become active all of a sudden the PML (N) and the JUI (F), have also jogged into action and in the days to come many other political parties would start flexing their muscles also which gives rise to the impression as if election campaign for the 2018 elections which is going to be a fairly long one this time round has, probably kicked off.
The election date is far off sometime in 2018 and the question which needs to be pondered by all the political parties is that in case there are no snap elections next year, wouldn’t the start of a prolonged election campaign so early in the day going to sap their energy and wear them out?