The elections had not only toppled but also evaporated political giants and kingpins from the political panorama of Sialkot district. The transparency of elections and down fall of bigwigs had set new parameters and examples for newly elected representatives for staying the political scene. The eye opening results and neck-and-neck fight had stunned the common man generally and particularly political parties on losing the seats of their candidates in the district.
People belonging to various walks of life including business community have expressed their confidence over Election Commission of Pakistan and lauded the efforts for making excellent polling arrangements and providing information about polling stations to the voters via SMS service first time in the history of polling in the country.
Socio-political circles and members of the civil society have also welcomed the high turnout in the election and termed it a step forward for democracy. The high turnout remained at 57. 42 percent by virtue of active participation of women folk especially in rural areas of the district which is a healthy omen they added. It was very surprising that families were split over the casting vote and they cast their votes in favour of different political parties in the district.
The political parties should refrain from blame game and rigging allegations and should respect each other mandate for the larger national interests besides newly elected representatives should refrain from indulging in digging out old issues for the betterment of the masses and bringing out the country from multiple challenges.
The defeat of Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan "the Iron Lady" of NA-111 and future formulation of new government are the hot talk of now-a-days in and around of Sialkot. The people sitting in teashops, restaurants and other public places found discussing the debacle of PPPP with different angles for finding out the clue of the defeat of such a big political party which had ruled the country for five years.
Most of the people were of the opinion that peoples government had totally failed in fulfilling its promises and delivering relief to common man during its tenure's. Yasmeen Saeed while expressing her views said that democratic government left a legacy of corruption and incompetency while pushing the country deep into gloom.
While expressing her views Shamim Akhtar said the prolonged outage of electricity and gas, rapid skyrocketing in utility bills and prices of daily use items were the unique gifts for the public which tantamount to snatching bread and butter from hand of middle and poor segment of the society and these are reasons of down fall of PPPP.
The local political analyst termed the defeat of Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan was due to her misconduct with the people and she preferred solo flight by ignoring the local leadership of PPPP. They further stated that after the completion of election process the political scenario of Sialkot district has totally been changed as PPPP had been eliminated from the political affairs completely. The voters have proved that "Democracy is the best revenge" as PPPP candidate had faced worst defeat in the election, they added.