With the passing away of Dr Mubashar Hasan the other day in Lahore , one of the last remnants of the ideological workers of the PPP has joined the great majority. He was a socialist, through and through. The house where he lived enjoys the rare distinction of being the birth place of the PPP, as it was there where the founders of the PPP under the leadership of ZA Bhutto had gathered in 1967 to launch the PPP.
Like J. A Rahim , who had drafted the original manifesto of the PPP, Dr Mubashar Hasan was the man behind the economic policy of his party. It is another matter that both of them fell foul of the influential political heavyweights inside the party who were at ill-ease with their socialistic bent of mind. Very soon they managed to blackball them before ZA Bhutto who sidelined them at their bidding. Dr Mubashar Hasan was lucky to escape the physical thrashing at the hands of the police which, unfortunately , was the fate of J. A. Rahim. The critics of the Founder of the PPP accuse him of being a very poor judge of men. He failed to read into the designs of the vested interest who wanted to infiltrate his political party and fail it, an objective they did achieve in the end.
Dr Mubashar Hasan was never the same again once he lost favour of his party chief and preferred to spend the rest of his life in isolation and seclusion. Had the PPP honoured persons like Dr Mubashar Hasan, J. A. Rahim and other persons of their ilk who were sincere to the cause of the down trodden in the society , it would not have fallen on bad days. It never fulfilled its electoral promises with the people with the result that it lost its mass appeal before long. It used to be a national political party once. Its influence today is limited to Sindh only.
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