Amidst Democracy

Composition of CB elections.

The election was held after a gap of 17 years, wonder why the founder of nazim system did not conducted CB elections during his 8 years of dictatorship. The election was held in the following cantonments of Pakistan. 

Hyderabad, Jehlum, Karachi(Faisal Cant, Maora Cant, Clifton Cant, Karachi Cant,Malir Cant, Korangi Cant),Lahore (Cant CB and Walton CB), Multan, Muree, Panu Aqil, Peshawar,  Rawalpindi, Sargodha, Quetta,  

More than 1150 candidates filed their papers for a total of 199 seats in CB elections. Following parties granted tickets to their party workers

• Pakistan Muslim League (N) 
• Pakistan People's Party Parliamentarians (PPP)
• Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI)
• Mutehada Qaumi Movement (MQM)
• Jamat e Islami (JI)
• Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT)
• Jamiat e ulemaai Islam (JUI)
• Pakistan Muslim League Quaid e Azam (PMLQ) 

According to the results PMLN got the maximum seats followed by the independent candidates. PTI stood third while MQM grabbed the fourth position. So coming back to the topic lets chalk out the possible faults of PTI that resulted in its defeat in CB elections.

1. The dharna and language of IK affected the voters. 
2. The dispelling performance in KPK is the reason.
3. PTIs love for taliban is the reason.

Most of the people i interact with twitter believe that the bawdy licentious language and the jingoistic behavior during the so called AZADI MARCH and its 4 months long shooting is the actual connection behind the defeat of PTI in CB elections. They presuppose that dharna had a negative impact because the people dislike the approach he adopted. However, in my point of view this is not the dominant factor. My reasoning is based on the fact that we as a nation are political TAMASHBEEN. We love to see the politicians abusing each other publicly, mudslinging is perhaps the best thing to watch. Our people are so much found of gossips and loose talk, its just feast for their ears and potlatch for their eyes to see Imran Khan ranting continuously for 4 months, mimicking the seasoned Baloch leaders, attaining the bulls eye in below the belt hitting and that too on daily a fresh target. Someday telling people that the PM will be having wet shalwars, next day threatening Shahid Afridi, the day after that he was intimidating the IGP ISB and so on. Secondly, the majority of the PTI supporters are revolutionary kittens who are always free to abuse, decry and vilify anyone who shows discomfort with the politics of Imran Khan and this is the problem in democracy, that majority is the authority. So what i want to say is that bawdy talk of Imran Khan during the so called Azadi march has nothing to do with their defeat. Such things, in national politics in general and for PTI in particular, only helps them getting new lot of frustrated abusers. Therefore, this reason comes at #3.

This is another reason that can be considered, however i ranked it #2 because, there is always a margin of performance in the electoral result. No tangible project is currently under implementation stage in KPK. Other than the so called non political police force they are emerging, which btw has nothing to do with on ground practice, they have no performance in any sector. Health, education, public service, transportation, road infrastructure, energy generation, mining, tourism, law and order and so on. You name it and a failure of PTI is there. Not one project , i repeat not a dime of work has been implemented. The fraud of education emergency which was shifted to Reham khan's Tameer e School program was discussed in an earlier blog, however as i have written that stupidity remains forever, the construction of 350 dams announced last year and the fresh bullshit is the plantation of 1 Billion trees in a province that has an area of 74521 sq Km. Conclusion: PTI has nothing to showcase when it come to their performance in KPK.  

In 2013, the jail break o DI Khan was instrumented. PTI chairman Imran Khan, instantly typed a tweet, putting all responsibility on the ANP lead previous government. However, he never bothered to answer why the inquiry report of DIKhan Jail break was held in the office of CM KPK or more than 8 month. He also never told this nation that how many of those who fled from the jail are arrested again. He never helped the federal law enforcement agencies in maintaining law and order. His views about the IDPs was a total  nonsense, about them he said " They are not our responsibility". He insisted about meeting the CoAS regarding the army operation in FATA, which has nothing to do with the KPK government, and while it was a classified meeting, he told media about the possible success rate of the war against Taliban. He and his ministers were so vocal about their crush on Taliban that while he demanded to have Taliban's office in Peshawar, his ministers offered them ministries of religious affairs. And i think that this is the reason, that haunted the residents of cantonment the most. His love for Taliban is evident from the fact that his party tried to deceive the public by spreading false information. Having, said that we can assume that not all but majority of the people living in cantonment board dislikes the pro Taliban attitude and that's the reason behind the downfall of PTI. 

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Aristophanes once wrote, roughly translated; "Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but STUPID lasts forever". So what caused the dent in cantonment elections to PTI, to which most of us were thinking as their bastion. For me there could be several reasons behind their fall in their so called "strongholds" and being pro Taliban is the biggest of all.