Today is the foundation day of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and 47 years ago, the ideological and pragmatic foundation of the PPP was laid at Lahore under the chair of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Despite the fact it had been a long time since the PPP was founded, the party is yet a representative political party of millions, and is still imparting ideological and pragmatic guidance to millions of party workers toward their right path. Without going into details, I would like reminding of those two days when millions were present in the meeting and 10 foundation papers were unanimously approved, which carried guidelines for the party workers toward the resolution of people’s problems. Again, it would not be an appropriate time to discuss about those 10 foundation papers in detail. However, it would be a right time to refer to one of those documents so as to leave some guidelines to the party workers, which carried a caption of – Why a new political party?
This question had provided the basis for the creation of a new political party, which was founded in a rich and politically fertile land at the grass root level. The party addressed people’s issues and proved to be an inevitable one for protecting the federation, maintaining the Islamic values, promoting the democratic norms and progressing toward the Parliamentary politics and for keeping the masses united across the board. The party, PPP, had its basis on four pillars, which were,
Islam is our religion
Democracy is our politics
Socialism is our economy
People are base of power
Later, Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto had added one more clause to those four pillars, that the martyrdom is our mission.
This is the base of the PPP, which is achieved through continued struggle and tremendous sacrifices for Islam, Democracy, unexploiting economy, rule of the masses. The PPP had on the basis of those pillars of its foundation raised a slogan for the political gains that Roti – Kapra aur Makan (means for living – clothing – and Shelter) are the basic needs of every human and it is the responsibility of the state to provide those articles to the masses. Later Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Shaheed expanded that slogan with education, health, energy and law and order. In brief, this is the pragmatic basis of PPP’s ideology according to which the party was put into progress and Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Shaheed had as per need of the hour run the party and thousands of party workers laid their lives for the cause. Their struggle is being continued and would never cease to exist and hence the PPP is still a sole pro-masses political party and the poor and the deprived are the heirs of it.
Asif Ali Zardari had while taking pains for protecting that basis of the hierarchy walked through difficult times along with the policy of reconciliation and provided a guarantee for the sanctity and prevalence of the Parliamentary democratic System. Today’s protected and prevailing democracy is the result of his philosophy of political reconciliation.
Twenty-five year old Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the heir of the legacy of his Shaheed grandfather and Shaheed mother is the custodian of the basis of the PPP in future and he would incorporate their legacies for the welfare of the masses, sovereignty of the country, in future. Pakistan is a federation and its basic needs could only be met through continued democratic system of government and hence the existence of the PPP is correlated with the existence of the country. The revolution that the PPP had brought on November 30, 1967 is being continued and is non-stoppable. Not only the people of Pakistan but the people of the entire region are aware of the fact that destroying the PPP is tantamount to destroying federation of Pakistan. In past, many efforts were made and conspiracies were hatched by the forces of tyranny to eliminate the PPP but the party remained intact.
The PPP is still alive and active because they are the masses, who have owned this party and shed their blood for it. As I said earlier, the revolution had already been caused to seat in the country 47 years ago and the second biggest spell of the revolution was witnessed on April 4, 1979 when Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto while going toward the gallows had stated that he could be crushed but he could not be defeated in the history. Those, who had hung him, were deceived of their own false notions that the PPP had then been eliminated but the PPP was rejuvenated at the same time and of course, hundreds of party workers had added their blood to that rejuvenation.
The PPP is an ideology and a movement for attaining the goal and hence it could not be wiped out. The party is intact with the federation and those forces of tyranny that are yet bent upon wiping out it should remember it would jeopardizes the sovereignty of the country. Pakistan would live forever and the PPP, too. Dreams of the forces of tyranny would never come true.
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