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| Electables, New Faces, and Possible Chief Ministerial Candidates: Did Imran Khan Fulfill His Promises in Ticket Distribution? |
Question: You wanted to become the Chief Minister?
Answer: The post of the Chief Minister is like this if the person can change anything, then it should be in the CM's office.
Question: Did Fawad Chaudhry, Hammad Azhar, and Shah Mehmood Qureshi not get MPA tickets?
Answer: Not found.
Question: Is it okay?
Answer: It didn't feel good, it should have been met, but Khan Sahib says, "I didn't get it, so I didn't get it, what can you say now?"
Question: Shahbaz Gul also did not get a ticket?
Answer: Not found.
Question: Can Buzdar become CM again?
Answer: I think it can be.
Question: Can Imran Khan start the election campaign in a rally by saying that Usman Buzdar is the chief ministerial candidate in Punjab?
Answer: I would not advise it.
This interesting conversation took place between Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Fawad Chaudhry and private TV channel 'ARY anchor Kashif Abbasi. The topic of discussion was the tickets issued by Tehreek-e-Insaf for provincial assemblies in Punjab and their effects and implications.
Fawad Chaudhry was expressing his personal views and not the party's stand on the matter, but this short conversation also reveals the views that many party leaders and workers who were deprived of a ticket share in their minds. It should be noted that Fawad Chaudhry had expressed his desire to get the Chief Ministership of Punjab in the 2018 elections as well.
Although there is currently a question mark over the date of the provincial assembly elections in Punjab and the PML-N has not even given tickets to its candidates, PTI's timely distribution of tickets in Punjab has given rise to an interesting debate. is given
As the text of the conversation makes clear, the process of Tehreek-e-Insaaf, during which Chairman Imran Khan personally interviewed the candidates, shattered the dreams of many. However, on the other hand, many such candidates also emerged for whom this election can open the door to parliamentary politics.
Some big names like Shah Mahmood Qureshi, and Fawad Chaudhry are surprisingly absent from this list despite their desire, while former Speaker and Chief Minister of Punjab Pervez Elahi and his son Munis Elahi, who joined Tehreek-e-Insaf, are included, like Shahbaz Gul. If the names of the active people are not visible, tickets were also given to young PTI workers whose names are not known to the public.
In such a situation where the name of a possible Chief Minister of Punjab is being discussed in the case of Imran Khan's victory in the Punjab Assembly election, the question is also being raised whether PTI rejected the electives this time or not. At the same time, a section is also talking about how many new faces PTI has allowed to come forward under the claims of Imran Khan.
If one looks at the list of PTI candidates in Punjab, a mixed trend emerges, with old faces, dynamic youth associated with the party, and some 'unexpected' new faces like Mehr Sattar, including members of political families. According to a political observer, Imran Khan's new political narrative can be said to be an attempt to change it into a parliamentary style of politics.
Criticism of ticket distribution
Ticket distribution draws criticism from almost all parties and this is what happened with the PTI.
When Fawad Chaudhry complained on TV, Shehbaz Gul also resorted to Twitter and said that Fawad Chaudhry, Hammad Azhar, some other senior members, and I submitted the papers for the provincial assembly, but Chairman Imran Khan sent all of us. Decided not to give tickets to them.
Shahbaz Gul wrote that "Khan Sahib's decision is accepted wholeheartedly." I am not with Khan for the ticket nor for the position, it is with the ideology.
After such statements, Azhar Mashwani, a member of Tehreek-e-Insaf's social media team, said that many former federal ministers and members of the National Assembly of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf will also contest on the seats of the Punjab Assembly due to the separate elections of the provincial and national assemblies. wanted to.
However, he said that keeping the election panels in front, Chairman PTI formulated a policy for the parliamentary board that the federal team will remain in the federation.
This strategy is in place, but PTI workers also took to social media to complain that not all decisions in the distribution of tickets were correct.
A user Rana Tanveer Akhtar wrote that PTI gave tickets to the families of federal ministers and gave tickets without conducting interviews in South Punjab, to which Azhar Mashwani replied that a five percent quota for women was also kept in the tickets.
Journalist Majid Nizami while talking to BBC said that there are problems in the distribution of tickets.
He said that Khan had announced that he would conduct interviews in 297 constituencies himself, but what happened was that he conducted around one hundred to one and a half hundred interviews. After that, he said that time was short, so he followed the suggestions.
"His claim that he will take every interview himself proved to be false."
Journalist Ahmed Ejaz says that 'In the context of the political situation, some people in Tehreek-e-Insaaf also believe that the Punjab Assembly election will not be held and there may be a change in the distribution of tickets later.'
Journalist Ahmed Ejaz says that PTI has not considered everywhere who wants to get an MNA ticket. Many people who want to get the MN ticket have taken the provincial assembly ticket.
He gave an example and said that 'Gulzar Hasnain was to contest the MNA election from Okara but now he has got the election ticket from the provincial assembly. Similarly, former PML-N MPA Tariq Mehmood Bajo from Nankana SahibH, who was the MNA candidate against Tahir Burgess, has got the ticket for the provincial election.
Sajafi Ahmed Ejaz also gave an example where a party worker was ignored in ticket distribution.
PTI activist Aun Hameed Dogar from Muzaffargarh PP 274 won the election on a PTI ticket in 2018 but this time the ticket was given to Jamshed Dasti who joined the party recently.
Who is the strongest candidate for Chief Minister in Punjab based on the PTI list?
If we look at the list of candidates of Tehreek-e-Insaf in Punjab, they include former Chief Minister Usman Buzdar, former Speaker, and Chief Minister Pervez Elahi.
On the other hand, former Punjab Health Minister Dr. Yasmin Rashid and former provincial Minister Mian Aslam Iqbal are also not weak candidates.
Talking about the Chief Ministerial candidate in Punjab, Sohail Waraich said that Parvez Elahi is the strongest candidate. The condition was fixed that he would be the Chief Minister and he was made the party president.
Journalist Ahmed Ejaz says that there are talks at the local level in Gujarat that Chaudhry Parvez Elahi will be the next Chief Minister.
However, in Majid Nizami's opinion, in the case of Tehreek-e-Insaf's victory in Punjab, it is quite difficult to answer the question of who will be the chief minister, because Imran Khan can give a surprise once again.
"We cannot expect that a big name will become the Chief Minister if he wins, Imran Khan's strategy has been that he has fielded a weak candidate."
Explaining his answer, Majid said, "They have an example of Pervez Khattak in 2013 when they installed a strong chief minister but after that, they decided not to install a strong chief minister."
When he was asked whether Pervaiz Elahi is not a strong candidate in the light of recent experiences, he said that Imran Khan gave Parvez Elahi the chief ministership under compulsion, but now he no longer has that influence. That he has become a part of the party.'
Has the PTI said goodbye to hereditary and electives?
If we look back at this list of Tehreek-e-Insaf, it cannot be said that Imran Khan's legacy or electives have been completely rejected.
If we talk about South Punjab, there are many names and families including Shah Mehmood Qureshi's son Zain Qureshi, former Federal Minister Khusro Bakhtiar's brother Hashim Jawan Bakht, who have been part of Tehreek-e-Insaf in the past from various parties. He continued to be a part of provincial politics.
Qureshi family from Multan, Hasnain Darishak from Rajanpur, Mohsin Laghari, Usman Buzdar from Dera Ghazi Khan, Saifuddin Khosa, Shahabuddin Sehar from Leh, Bukhari, and Jatoi family from Muzaffargarh and recently joined PTI. Jamshed Dasti, Rahim Yar Khan's Raees, and Makhdoom families have been an important part of the political arena in every era.
Journalist Sohail Waraich says that the distribution of PTI tickets makes it clear that the workers were given tickets in the cities and the electives in the suburbs. What is the experience of novices in Lahore?
In other words, it can be said that the old formula was kept in the suburbs.
Sohail Waraich said that if it was not given to Fawad Chaudhry, then it was given to his cousin, the tickets were given to Shah Mehmood Qureshi's will, Chaudhry Parvez Elahi and Monis, i.e. father and son, were given to Afzal Sahi and Ali. Afzal Sahi is a father and son and in Jhang too, mother and daughter got tickets.'
Majid Nizami also agrees with this.
Speaking to BBC, he said that 'Most of the tickets have been given to electives and traditional politics. 90 percent of the women who were given tickets belong to hereditary political families.
Journalist Ahmed Ejaz claimed that according to his reports, the electives in many areas influenced the distribution of tickets.
Fakhr Imam was clearly influential in the distribution of tickets at the provincial level in Khanewal. Here, in a way, the tickets have been given by their will. Riyaz Fathiana made an impact in Toba Tek Singh and his wife was given the ticket.
In Jhang, Ghulam Bibi Bharwana, who is considered eligible, was given the ticket. Both Ali Afzal Sahi and his father were given tickets to Faisalabad.
However, he says that some new faces have emerged.
Salman Khan Gudohoka was given a ticket to the seat PP 237 of Bahawalnagar, who is contesting the election for the first time and is completely young.
New faces
While many old faces are included in the list of Tehreek-e-Insaf, on the other hand, Tehreek-e-Insaf also gave importance to many new names this time.
Among them are youths like Arsalan Hafeez, President of the Insaf Student Federation, Ehsan Toor, General Secretary of Insaf Youth Wing, ISF Convener Advocate Haider Majeed, Ammar Bashir, Yasir Gilani.
However, Majid Nizami says that these are 10 to 15 tickets. This is not a big enough number on which to say that new faces were given more of a chance. 10-15 out of 297 is nothing.
An important name among these names is Meher Abdul Sattar who has been given a ticket from Okara. It should be noted that Punjab Farmers Association General Secretary Maher Abdul Sattar gained fame for leading the movement on behalf of local farmers in the Okara Military Farm ownership dispute.
He was booked in 36 cases from 2001 to 2016 on charges of impeaching the Pakistan Army, having links with foreign agencies, and conspiring to defame the country.
He was arrested in 2016