ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto returned to the country on Monday to start the party’s election campaign on April 4.
PPP sources revealed to Daily Times that despite severe security threat and reservations on the way party’s affairs are being run, PPP chairman decided to return to Pakistan to start the party’s election campaign on April 4, but it was still not clear whether he would lead the party campaign till the elections in prevailing circumstances or not.
The sources said that the party had instructed all its district level organisations to arrange meetings in their respective offices to observe the 34th death anniversary of founder-chairman of PPP and former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. It must be noted that there are different points of view among PPP leaders regarding the departure of their party’s chairman from Pakistan before the start of election campaign, but they all agreed that he would return before April 4.
One section of the PPP says that Bilawal left the country due to the security concerns, but few senior party leaders say that Bilawal was unhappy regarding the running of party’s affairs, as he believed that the party’s ideology was being compromised by promoting different individuals whose loyalty is divided. On the other hand, one PPP leader claimed that isolation of Bilawal from the upcoming election campaign was part of the strategy because party leadership believed that they should not ruin a PPP asset by using Bilawal in the upcoming election campaign, especially when the performance of the PPP was too poor.
Likewise, he said that few senior PPP leaders told the part leadership that it was better that PPP chairman be spared from the upcoming election campaign and those party leaders who ran the government affairs for the last five years should lead the election campaign. Another annoyed PPP leader said that it was better that party should ask Rehman Malik, Asim Hussain, Hafeez Sheikh, Farooq H Naek, etc, for campaigning in the elections because they had occupied important executive portfolios during the last five years and were responsible for bad governance.
Meanwhile, it has been learnt that severe mismanagement has been witnessed in Punjab in resolving the dispute among party workers, which erupted due to the decisions regarding the issuance of party tickets to the candidates. The sources said that no regular meeting of the PPP Punjab parliamentary board was being held to address these issues. Likewise, with general elections around the corner, the Supreme Court has taken up cases against senior leaders of the Pakistan People’s Party who are in charge of party campaign across the country.
The cases to be taken up include former premier Raja Pervez Ashraf’s contempt and rental power projects scam, alleged involvement of Amin Fahim in NICL scam, intra-court appeal of former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani against his conviction and contempt proceedings against Rehman Malik that may be a setback for the PPP with the elections just over a month away.
Due to the Supreme Court pressure, the FIA has also issued arrest warrant for Amin Fahim in the NICL scam. During the last proceeding on March 27, 2013, the Supreme Court remarked that the money trail in NICL scandal led to the bank account of Mahkdoom Amin Fahim and his family members. It is worth mentioning that SM Zafar, counsel for Amin Fahim, had told the bench that it was his 15th appearance in the case and requested that his point of view should be heard but the court rejected his plea. Upon this, the counsel said that he always respected the courts, but his patience was running out now.
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