“The growing popularity of Imran Khan’s PTI brought the PML(N) closer to PPP,” so disclosed Irfan Bukhari.
One of the main reasons for the popularity appears to be Imran looking sincere in his commitments which he told to the masses. It is too early to say whether the other major political parties’ neglect and flaws proved to be blessing-in-disguise for the PTI.
PPP: (a) Price-hike becoming a retail business, (b) Striving for success without hard work like harvesting when you have not planted, and (c) the shortages and sheddings of the power sector, the backbone of the economy, becoming a rule instead of an exception as in the past of a few years.
PML(N): The main opposition party’s main slogan against the government ‘was’ fighting the corruption, giving the nation hope against hope for four years, (a) instead masses started suffering from monotony, (b) instead corruption freely shaped itself as a fatal beast, (c) instead it could not pull the carpet from under the feet of the party, becoming talks of the town.
Jamat-e-Islami: Despite their efforts, it is dead silence at all fronts.
These and other parties’ best efforts going to drain is one of the causes why the Imran Khan phenomenon is getting so strong.
Z A KAZMI
Karachi