Bilawal hasn’t said anything which is new in his public rally in Rahim Yar Khan the other day: the same oft- repeated words which no longer appeal to the common man as they are fed up hearing them over and over again. It seems that he had nothing new to offer and his speech writers have run out of fresh ideas. If the PPP is to be run on the same old lines by the same old cronies of Zardari then God be with it!Zardari has only one card left with him and that is of his son. If he misused it, his party would further nose dive in the public rating. Had he been sensible enough, he should have diagnosed by this time as to what really ails his party? He should have, by now, carried out postmortem of his party and tied its loose ends. One thing is sure and that is that he should, himself, never come to the forefront now. If he feels that his son needs guidance that can be provided to him by his remaining in the background. It is not difficult for a sensible politician having hand on the pulse of people to know what the people think of him and what do they now expect from his political party.
Zardari and his associates who ran the show between 2008 and 2013 have a lot to live down. It would be good for the convalescence and health of their party if they now remain in the background and encourage new faces to come forward and repair the fractured political body of the PPP. Meanwhile, instead of wasting their time in their build up to the 2018 elections by indulging in sabre rattling only, they had better reduce in black and white their new election manifesto in which they should lay down in concrete and unambiguous words their action plan which they would like to act upon, for ameliorating the lot of the teeming millions, instead of talking in generalities. The people expect the same type of nationalism, passion and enthusiasm which the founder of this party had shown for lifting the poor of the country out of the morass of poverty and squalor.
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