Rafiullah
NA-260 election result was a great shock for PKMAP. It was a thunder storm for the PKMAP changing its position from victor to defeated one. What were the reasons behind this failure of PKMAP? What lessons are disguised in this defeat for the PKMAP and what should it require to do in future to avoid such consequences.
Election is sine qua non of democracy. In every democratic state election is held to elect the law making body. In 2013 election PKMAP candidate Rahim Mandokhail had won the election in the same constituency NA-260. But unfortunately nature didn’t accompany him and he passed away. A seat was declared vacant and a second chance appeared in the same constituency for each party to show its might and voter strength.
Election was held in NA-260 on 15th of July. JUI-F secured highest votes, BNP remained second in the contest, while PKMAP was third on the position. For a political scientist it is quite queer that how party become so weak that it even loses its wining seat. It was huge shock both for party and public.
PKMAP defeat lies in the following reasons.
First PKMAP during its reign performed badly in the whole region, particularly in the NA-260. People seemed to be claiming about the bad governance of the party. Everywhere people were unhappy with the work of PKMAP.
Second PKMAP failed to make coalition with any party despite the fact that it was aware of the coalition of BNP and ANP. If a Baloch based party BNP can make coalition with a Pashtun based party ANP then why not PKMAP. There is two possibilities behind the failure of PKMAP to render coalition with another party. First PKMAP did not have the potential to make such coalition possible. Second other parties didn’t trust it due to its bad performance. Either case is a call of danger for the party.
Third the candidate who was selected for the election was not on the basis of merit rather money. Jamal Taraqai was granted the ticket by ignoring party’s most vibrant, active and selfless members who have made great sacrifices for the cause of party and Pashtun nation.
Politics is all about compromise game of give and take, Work of coalition, cleverness and cunnings. Unfortunately PKMAP didn’t have any of these. Defeat in NA-260 proved to be an alarming call for the party reputation and success in the offing election of 2018. It is high time for PKMAP to mend its ways, behave politically, establish the instance of good governance and prefer meritocracy in the selection of candidates for the election. Otherwise result will be worse than NA-260.
PKMAP should not forget this defeat and learn lesson from it to avoid such a humiliation in the future. Calculate the unhappiness of the masses that the party lost the seat which it had won in the 2013 election. Other parties should also learn lesson from the case of PKMAP that if they too don’t deliver what they promise to the masses during their canvassing and campaign. They will too face the same result in the form of failure, defeat and humiliation.
Writer is a Student of Political Science in Quaid e Azam University Islamabad and hails from Loralai
Disclaimer: Views expressed in this article are those of the author and Balochistan Voices not necessarily agrees with them.
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