The 2018 elections

The general elections will be held in the year 2018. We can now see all political parties actively involved in winning the confidence of the common man. However, our politicians’ strategy is odd. Parties’ sloganeering shifts more towards personal attacks rather than enunciating measures for the solution of national problems. The ratio of educated to uneducated people continues to worsen. Power has passed into the hands of the permanent bureaucracy which cares nothing about nation-building, but only about its own comforts and continues to loot the national exchequer.

Politicians, once they gain power, also use their limited time to help themselves. Politics has been reduced to singing and dancing in the streets. In the past 70 years, we have only helped certain sections of society and not done enough to uplift the status of the common man. We can join the ranks of the 21st century developed nations only by abolishing our elitist system.

Asif Ahmad

Muzaffargarh