Difference of opinion amongst the members of a political party is one thing and washing one’s dirty linen in public is quite another. It seems that the PTI is riven by two groups, one standing solidly behind the judicially disgraced, Jehangir Tareen while the second group has a liking for Shah Mahmood QureshI. Bilawal sardonically bills them as two deputy prime ministers.
There are many workers inside the PTI who take umbrage at the participation of the former in the cabinet meetings saying his attendance in them tantamounts to contempt of the apex court which had banned him from politics for life. They are of the view that the PTI leadership shouldn’t give any opportunity to the Opposition parties to criticise it for patronising a person who is guilty in the eyes of the supreme Court. Prima facie, the holders of this view seems to have a point there. If the verdicts of the superior judiciary would be honoured more in the breach than in the observance, wrong signals would go to the common man, particularly the youth of the country who can then draw wrong lessons from it. The PM had better give a serious consideration to this objection which has been made from within his party. He need to put his foot down on the slanging match on this issue among the workers of his party. There are many things which are better left unsaid in public instead of mudslinging at one another which only weakens the fibre of the party, besides , making it a laughing stock of the common man.
The tragedy with the so-called parliamentary democracy in this country is that how honest and dedicated the PM might be, he has to willy nilly rely on assembly members for running the show and keep the wheels of the government moving and they might not be as honest and dedicated as he is, and in this phenomenon a lot of wheeling dealing compromises and political expediency come into play. The question is that, , politically handicapped as he is, with a very feeble majority in the NA, what should the PM do?
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