PPP, 56 years of rise and fall
Today November 30 is the foundation day of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). The party turned 56 years old, neither Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the founder of the party, nor his daughter Benazir Bhutto could reach this age. It is a different thing that if the "blood" of both of them had not been involved, the party would have ended much earlier. Today, the party is under the leadership of a young Bilawal Bhutto whose challenge is more internal than external political strife and this is not since today when the party almost decided to scrap the four 'P' party after the 2008 elections and bring back the original PPP with its election symbol 'Sword' into the fray and as far as I know, as confirmed by highly reliable party sources, there is only a "written agreement" between the "sword and arrow" PPP.
The symbol of the "arrow" was the compulsion of the party, while the "sword" is the symbol of Bhutto and the party of 1967. Bhutto was hanged at the age of 51 years, Benazir Bhutto was 54 years old at the time of martyrdom, Murtaza Bhutto was 42 years old and Shah Nawaz died at the age of 26, among them, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was the only person who chose "politics" himself and became the foreign minister of Pakistan at a very young age and proved that extraordinary intelligence is more important than experience. In a political career of only 20-22 years, he found a position that "experienced" politicians could not reach even at the age of 70.
In the foundation of this party many politicians belonging to the left wing but first of all Mr. JA Rahim and Dr. Mubasher Hassan along with some of their friends met Bhutto who was leading the movement against Field Marshal Ayub Khan at that time. Rahim and Mubasher proposed to form a "socialist party" Bhutto agreed but suggested that it should be given some Islamic color so after several days of discussion in the convention it was renamed as Pakistan People's Party. From 1972 to 1977, the party became unpopular under the PPP government, from governance to politics of political revenge, especially in urban areas, but the original nursery of the party, the workers, farmers and youth, was connected to the party, so when Bhutto held elections a year before his term expired, then his opponents formed the Pakistan National Alliance.
According to PNA leader Maulana Shah Ahmad Noorani, even if the election had not been rigged, Bhutto would have won, but the opposition parties would have got a lot of seats. When martial law was imposed on July 5, 1977, General Zia did not hold elections in October 1977 nor in 1979. he was correct that the PPP would win. Therefore, first of all, an attempt was made to eliminate the party politically and in the first phase, its election symbol "Sword" was delisted by the Election Commission. While Bhutto was in jail, Begum Nusrat ran the election campaign in such a way that she left behind the experienced politicians of the party, but later Benazir Bhutto took over the leadership after hanged as a result of political strife.
The difference between mother and daughter was not political thinking but "approach". The "inexperienced" Bibi breathed new life into the party and soon the party workers got a new impetus. When Bibi became an "experienced person", she went from political resistance to political expediency and then reconciliation, but in 2007, she was criticized for the NRO along with General Musharraf. When she went to Pakistan, there was a suicide attack on her, the danger was not averted, she returned to Dubai, then all the NROs came and were martyred. On December 27, 2007, Bibi was martyred. On the second day, after the funeral, the party executive meeting was held. When Asif Ali Zardari came to participate in the meeting, he placed his hand on the shoulder of PPPP President Makhdoom Amin Fahim, who was sitting nearby, and said, "You are the party's prime ministerial candidate." Later, Zardari read out Bibi's "Will" and then appointed Bilawal Bhutto as PPP Chairman.
Along with this, Mr. Zardari also announced that the chairman of the party is Bilawal and he will remain the co-chairman until he grows up. Now I don't know how long Bilawal will grow up. The politics of PP has shifted from 70 Clifton to Bilawal House during Bibi's time, but now there is an impression that the politics of Garhi Khuda Bakhsh is under the control of Nawab Shah. Perhaps the main political mistake made by Zardari was to make Bilawal chairman at a very young age.
Experience comes from working within the party, not from getting a big position. Bilawal's speech at Jinnah Ground in 2015 was full of emotions and ideas in which he attacked his own Sindh government. I think that speech was a "danger bell" for Mr. Zardari. He immediately went to Lahore and gave a speech on Bilawal's non-appearance in the workers' convention, calling him "inexperienced and a child". Now that kid is young and wants full control of the party. Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan advised Zardari in Dubai in 2015 that all politicians of this age including himself should step back, but Zardari wore both hats. The president will also give the same ticket.
Now Aseefa's name has started coming up with Bilawal. It is not known whether she will fight Nawab Shah from Larkana or Chitral. I don't know much about the contents of the written agreement after 2008, but having this agreement is a testimony to it. That the matter is not so serious. The internal political strife of the party has ranged from the "stroke of the sword" to the shooting of an arrow. Bilawal made a narrative in the election campaign and presented it, then looked back and saw it as the poet said.
دیکھا جو تیر کھا کر کمیں گاہ کی طرف
اپنے ہی دوستوں سے ملاقات ہوگئی
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