The use of rail journey by Bilawal in what has been billed as PPP’s mass contact campaign was not a bad idea. At one point in time in history, the same mode was used by the founder of the PPP, late ZA Bhutto too with a telling effect. It is another matter that Bilawal is not a patch on his maternal grandfather and, moreover, he is still in his salad days, insofar, as politics is concernced. When Bhutto had taken first step in politics he had, by then, come of age having served in Ayub Khan’s regime for good 8 years as a minister. Railway is a poor man’s transport and it has a romance of its own. If our politicians, both sitting in the opposition as well in the government , particularly, the ministers and the bureaucrats start travelling in it instead of other mode of transport the standard of its service can improve by leaps and bounds.
Let us hope that the alleged sins of Zardari do not visit upon his son. He is certainly handicapped on this score. If he has to win the heart and soul of the masses he would have to establish his individual identity and steer clear of the political shenanigans of a majority of PPP leaders who have a lot to live down. While Bilawal himself might not have any minus point, this cannot be said of a majority of his party men , whom the common man has tested not only in Sind but in the entire country as they have been in power not once but many times. If Nawaz League failed to deliver after remaining in power in the most populated province of the country as well in the centre, the PPP too failed to come up to his expectation and that was the precise reason why they are in such a political predicament today.
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