Pre-poll politics

Published March 18, 2018

APROPOS your editorial ‘Uncouth pre-poll politics’ (March 12). The mode of expressing public dissent had so far been confined to throwing eggs and tomatoes. But the dissent has now taken a new turn when shoes and ink are thrown.

If the new scenario is ‘uncouth, what would you call the act where a political leader throws a weighing scale at the face of the most respected institution of the country, the judiciary, whose supremacy even the Constitution recognises?

Your suggestion to major political parties to “ask level-headed leaders from among their ranks to meet and draw up an emergency code of conduct acceptable to all parties” is no doubt commendable. Unfortunately, the nation has come to a pass where its leaders, from all sides, are out to throw civility to the winds. This suggestion would, in all probability, fall on deaf ears.

Syed Osman Sher
Mississauaga, Canada

Published in Dawn, March 18th, 2018

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