Election
campaign
West
Pakistan
But the political
position in West Pakistan was totally different from East Pakistan. In West
Pakistan the population was divided between different ideological forces. The right wing parties led under Abul Maududi
raise the religious
slogans and at first
campaigned on an Islamic
platform, further hopeful to enforce Sharia laws in the country. Meanwhile the founding
party of Pakistan and the national conservative Pakistan Muslim League led by Pakistan
Movement Bengali
activist Nurul Amin
campaigned on a nationalist platform promising to begin the Jinnah reforms as in
the beginning envision by Jinnah and others in the 1940s.
The active leadership
and charismatic personality of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was extremely active and powerful in
West Pakistan during these days. Bhutto's socialistic ideas and the famous
slogan "Roti Kapra
Aur Makaan" ("Food Clothing and Shelter") concerned
the poor communities’ students and working class. The democratic socialist leftist and Marxist
communist a lot gathered and united into one
platform under Bhutto's leadership. Bhutto and the socialist leftists appeal to
the people of the West to contribute and vote for the Peoples Party for a superior
future for their children and family. For the first time in the history of
Pakistan the leftists and democratic socialists united under the leadership of Zulfiqar
Ali Bhutto participated in the elections as one strong power. As compared to
the right wing and conservative in West Pakistan Bhutto and his related
leftists and democratic socialists won most of the popular vote becoming the
pre-eminent players in the politics of the West.
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