Right after the rally of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) in Mardan on December 23, various questions have been raised on the absence of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari as for many, it is tacit that the party is distancing from the alliance’s objectives.
PPP Chairman did not address the meeting even via video-link neither the top leadership of the political party joined the rally.
PPP is already confused over en masse resignations from the national and provincial assemblies and will decide about it finally in its meeting of Central Executive Committee (CEC) on December 29.
The party officials have sounded a bit reluctant besides ambiguous over en masse resignations as PPP is participating in the by-elections in eight constituencies of national and provincial assemblies.
Maybe this participation could be to influence the Electoral College in the Senate election, however, it signifies that the party wants to stay part of the system.
As the January 31 deadline is drawing closer after which the PDM will announce the date of its decisive long march against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government, the differences among the parties in the opposition’s alliance are surfacing too.
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The absence of PPP leadership in the protest of PDM in Mardan could be considered as credence to speculations running rife that the party is apparently distancing itself from the opposition’s alliance.
Qamar Zaman Kaira, a senior PPP leader, had said in a TV interview that the sit-in, as planned by the PDM, was not mandatory. “If the alliance decides to do so, PPP will have to review it”, he added.
Kaira’s statement, absence of Bilawal Bhutto in Mardan, PPP participating in the by-election are dots that could be connected to substantiate that PPP is now willing to distance itself from PDM as it has the most at stake than the rest of the parties in the alliance formed to divest Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government.