17 days ago
The Express Tribune
Where do provincial governments stand on the issue of local bodies, and why does holding local body elections always such a huge hassle? The public is in favour of local bodies because it has seen them flourish under martial law for around 40 years. “Which is why they see it as competition and more ground-level politics.”The main face of the local body, which was carried forward from the ‘70s, changed in 2002, when the Local Bodies Act (LBA) was formulated and the National Reconstruction Bureau started working on empowering local bodies. Many believe that the party’s local leadership and performance at the grass root level drive the voting mindset in LG elections. “In the 2015 elections, PPP did delimitation, while in the recent elections, it is done through ECP and not PPP,” he explains.
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