Can Bilawal deliver?

Bilawal is in active politics for quite sometime now but he has not yet offered anything new to the common man. He continues to indulge in the oft-repeated lament that the Establishment had, in the past, meted out discriminate treatment to the Sindhi prime ministers. In short, he too, in other words, has been playing Sindhi card which goes against the grain of the manifesto of the PPP written by its founding fathers back in the late 1960s. He has been complaining also in his speeches about the forces of the status quo, forgetting conveniently, that his own party had been in power four times since 1970 but it too didn’t take effective steps to break their shackles.
The common man wants real change and not mere rhetoric and sloganeering. Would Bilawal be able to deliver and prove himself different from his mother, father and maternal grandfather? 2018 is not far away. It is going to be the year of next elections. He has to first get rid of his father’s cronies who are occupying important positions inside his party and who have been instrumental in bringing a bad name to it well before the next elections. As long as they remain in the saddle the common man and the sincere PPP party workers would remain disillusioned. He has to offer an unambiguous election manifesto underlining the urgent problems being faced by the common man and how is he going to solve them. He has to talk in specifics instead of generalities. This is no easy task. One doesn’t know who are his think-tanks? Whatever he has been talking about up till now is subjective and one doesn’t find objective ness behind his speeches. To many he is quite young to the job. When his maternal grandfather had plumped for active politics in 1966, he had by that time, a load of experience with him as he had served the federal cabinet for almost 8 years during which he had held important portfolios including that of the foreign affairs. He had by that time also seen many ups and downs of the government. Bilawal has no such experience. He is a novice in politics for all practical purposes, therefore, it would be a miracle if proves himself equal to the task thrusted on him by the circumstances. It is precisely for this reason that many well wishes of the PPP wanted that Zardari should have groomed him for the job he is holding now in the manner Sonia Gandhi had groomed her son Rahul by making him rub shoulders with the ordinary member of Indian Congress party for over ten years.