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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

PPP plans mass-contact movement in flood-hit areas

* Rallies, public meetings to be held in Sindh
* Campaign to dispel impression that govt did not respond to flood disaster on time

By Muhammad Akram

LAHORE: The ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) is finalising a plan to launch a mass-contact movement in the flood-hit areas of Sindh by the end of the current month or the at start of October, party sources informed Daily Times on Monday.

“Public rallies and meetings in flood-hit areas of Sindh were being planned to dispel the impression that the government had not responded timely to the massive flood, which was far more devastating than the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, the earthquake in Haiti and the Asian tsunami put together,” the sources said.

“The public meetings are aimed at dispelling the impression being created by the party critics and also to prove that the PPP has healed the wounds of flood-hit people of the province with hard work and enjoys their support and blessings,” said the source.

“Following the month-long plan to get in to direct contact with people of Sindh through public meetings, the PPP would devise a similar plan for southern Punjab, Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa to mobilise party cadres as well as reaching out to the masses hit by the floods to gauge the political trends in these areas,” the sources said.

The sources said that following the advice of think-tanks, the party high-command was confident enough to go ahead with the plan. “The leadership believes that the party should fill the political void created by the massive floods and large scale devastation in areas of the country that are considered the PPP’s support base,” the sources said.

The sources said the party high-leadership believed that the mass-contact movement would also be an answer to the calls of military-led take over in the country. “There can be no bigger revolution in the country than the change that will be brought about after the rehabilitation of 20 million flood-hit people in the most-ignored and deprived areas of the country,” the sources said.

“The mass-mobilisation movement was also meant to make the people of these areas feel the presence of the party among themselves and also lay the groundwork for the 2013 general elections, as the PPP has already passed half of its term in the government,” the sources said.

Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk

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