Former Prime Ministers Nawaz Sharif and Shehbaz Sharif have entered the election field from Lahore, the capital of Punjab, while former Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto, son of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and grandson of the country's first elected Prime Minister Zulfiqar Bhutto, has also chosen Lahore as his constituency. Chosen. Maryam Nawaz and Hamza Shehbaz are also candidates for National Assembly from Lahore. On the other hand, former president and Bilawal Bhutto's father Asif Zardari has also campaigned in Lahore for his son and the party.
Political observers say that in Pakistan's electoral politics, the politics of Punjab determines the direction of any party towards Islamabad and perhaps this is the reason why every political party is focusing on the politics of Punjab at this time. A common perception is that the political party that succeeds in creating its narrative in the largest province of the country is able to form the government in Islamabad by taking majority in the elections, but it is not necessary that the entire Punjab. If a party has suppressed it, only then it has succeeded in forming the government.According to the experts who monitor electoral politics, the politics of different parts of Punjab are of different importance. It has also happened in the past that another party got the overall majority in Punjab, but the party which got the majority in another part of Punjab succeeded in forming the government at the centre. If we look at the general elections held in Pakistan in the past, this impression is also confirmed that the party that is making political tunnels in Punjab is also seen riding the horse of power in the federal government.
Bilawal Bhutto's election race from Lahore cannot be seen separately from the general elections of 1970 when his grandfather Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was a candidate for the National Assembly from Larkana, Hyderabad and Thatta and also from Lahore and Multan in Punjab . He also became the ruler of the state .Its simple science is that 53 percent of the 266 seats in the National Assembly, i.e. 141 seats, are in Punjab, which means that if a party succeeds in winning in Punjab, then the result will be the rule of the country. It comes out. But it has also happened in the past that a government of another party was formed at the center and someone else became the ruler of Punjab. Political experts attribute this to the division within Punjab.If we look back at the politics of Punjab in the general elections of the year 2002, the Q-League got majority in Punjab and this party was able to form the government at the center as well. In the year 2008, PML-N gets majority in Punjab, but succeeds in forming the People's Party government at the center. Initially, PPP formed a coalition government with PML-N, but then this alliance could not last for long.
In the year 2013, the PML-N won a clear majority in Punjab and then formed the government in the federal government as well. Before the general elections of the year 2018, the PML-N leadership faced various cases and imprisonments and in these circumstances Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf was able to get majority in Punjab. Imran Khan caused political damage to PML-N especially in Faisalabad and Lahore. Before the general elections of 2024, Imran Khan and Tehreek-e-Insaf leadership and workers are facing cases and imprisonment and this time they do not even have the election symbol of their party for the elections.The special thing this time is the entry of Chairman People's Party Bilawal Bhutto into Lahore politics. So let's see what the direction of Punjab politics can be this time in the upcoming Elections.
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