Bilawal finally made a debut in street politics the other day when he led a big PPP rally in Thattha to muster support for his party in the forthcoming elections to the Local Bodies in Sindh where the PPP had fared well in the first round of these elections and, where it feels, it has a better and a fair chance of scoring victory in the remaining rounds of the polls to the Local Bodies also. In Sind, the PPP has exploited Sind card quite effectively by upstaging all other local Sindh nationalists belonging to other regional political parties hitherto. It would be interesting for the political analysts to dig deep into the matter and find out why the electorate considers the PPP as a lesser evil as compared to other local nationalist political elements in Sind.
In Panjab, however, it seems that the PPP has left the ground to other political parties by correctly reading the writing on the walls that it stands little or no chance to make any headway in the Local Bodies elections as no noteworthy political campaign was launched by it up till now. Unless it solves the organisational matters in this province and bring forward dedicated and sincere workers wedded to the original political manifesto of this party it would not be able to find its feet again. The same goes for the KPK and Balochistan.
Lately, Bilawal and Imran Khan have been exchanging pleasantries by making sarcastic digs at each other in public meetings. Both of them would be strong candidates vying for the votes of the youth in the next general elections scheduled for 2018. Those who are building up the former as a better alternative than the latter have been, lately trying to make Bilawal live on the reputation of his maternal grandfather. To what extent they succeed in their strategy, only the next general elections would tell.