- PPP will remain dominant in Sindh’s politics
- at least for next 10 to 15 years
- And the reason is quite simple:
- Sindh’s politics is based on a system of patronage
- It revolves around the feudal lords there
- Historically there used to be two types of
- feudal lords in Sindh:
- pro-People’s Party and anti-People’s Party
- But during the last 10 years of continuous rule
- Asif Zardari also got the opportunity to
- bring anti-PPP feudal lords into his fold
- The bigger landlords get the MNA and MPA seats
- The smaller ones get positions in local bodies
- Then they can get contracts, transfers, postings,
- Senate seats and also positions in Union Councils
- So all the elites in Sindh who can be termed ‘elect-ables’
- have been co-opted by Asif Ali Zardari
- Their position therefore is quite strong in entire Sindh
- Although the middle class is quite weak in Sindh,
- sometimes it does play a defining role, like in 2013,
- when Makhdoom Amin Fahim barely managed to win
- his seat against Memon community’s candidate
- So that’s how it is and I don’t see any threat
- to PPP’s prospects in Sindh
- As they say, Zardari is PhD in politics,
- it is the same politics of patronage that he has mastered
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