When a seasoned politician like Maulana Fazlur Rehman says that Sind and Balochistan assemblies have been purchased in the recent polls, it means that there is certainly something wrong in the state of Denmark to quote Shakespeare.
The allegation of JI chief that in the past votes used to be stolen during elections but this time round in the recent polls the verdict of election has been stolen.
Let us admit that the present CEC has failed miserably in the discharge of his duties as never before in the history of Election Commission such blatant accusations had been laid at the door of the EC after elections, which is unfortunate, to say the least.
It is a pity that after every general elections in this country the losing political parties accuse the sitting government of gerrymandering the polls in cahoots with the EC. Many political observers are of the view that had electronic voting machine been introduced in the elections the present hullabaloo on the results of election would not have been raised by the political parties which lost at the hustings .
Electoral reforms are the need of the hour The new government had better initiate the process of electoral reforms soon and doesn’t leave them to the end of its tenure so that nothing is left to chance. Likewise, the national census needs to be started during the first six months of the stint of new elected government so as to enable the EC to update its electoral lists well in time and there is no hassle when elections are announced .
To what extent the new government is sincere in ameliorating the lot of the teeming millions of the have-nots of the country would be known from the following steps which are urgently called for on the part of those in the saddle in Islamabad now.
The rulers will have to learn to live like the ordinary mortal of this country They have to say good bye to the VVIP culture forthwith. Simplicity should exude from the clothes they wear, the food which they take, the houses they live in and the transport which they travel in. They should be now be wise enough to realize that the men in the street start developing hatred for their rulers if they notice that while they don’t know where their next meal would come from but their rulers are living a life of pomp and show.
The rulers should make it a point to carry out community oriented common people-friendly developmental projects instead of elite-friendly so that the common man is benefitted from them. The common man who has been fed on empty promises since long by his rulers now want them to deliver instead of indulging in rhetoric only.
