Battle for Lahore.

[yazdi]

Re: Battle for Lahore.

@Ali_Syed

^ I agree with what ever you have written, media has played a big part in reversing the trend.

anyways if the people believe that pmln can solve the problems of Punjab, they should think of their score card during the past five years. Id put them slightly better than the federal government.Secondly I’d give all credit to pmln to be posing anti PPP while helping them out in all difficult times. They have successfully played both sides of the fence. Anyways I personally think any pmln government would get unpopular early as compared to the current regime.

The biggest problem in Punjab today is energy. Law and order and governance is better than rest of Pakistan. People have started believing that if they vote for PTI, it will benefit PPP. This is my opinion about the reason of present upsurge in popularity of PMLN. There is no doubt that people actually believe that PMLN will solve the energy crisis in Punjab. Their interpretation of 19th amendment is that the right of provinces on resources was for the future discovered resources. So if they are voted to power they will immediately stop inequitable load shedding for gas and electricity.

I agree with you that PPP could not have completed their tenure without PMLN’s secret support which was given at the expense of people of Punjab. I don’t think masses understand all this.

Zardari who led PPP for last 5 years have proven that he is a master politician. Where he has lost big time is the fact that eventually a political party derives it’s power base from the people. Altaf may be a very irritating personality who has merged the concept of politics with criminality like no one else in the history of Pakistan. He survives in spite of his short comings just because somehow his power base amongst his constituents in in tact. Zardari on the other hand has lost public support and typical PPP power base amongst the poorest in the country..