The recent Congress of the PPP concluded just as was predicted by me in a recent article (‘The PPP’s 30th Congress’). There was lots of applause, the Central Committee Report was adopted unanimously, poor organizational work was declared to be responsible for the 2011 electoral defeat, the opposition and some other ‘enemies’ were identified and vilified (myself and Moses Nagamootoo) and a new Central Committee was elected without any headline catching result.
An atmosphere was established which appeared to rule out any new initiatives to break the political deadlock. Even if a more structured mode of conversation with the opposition had been proposed, it is difficult to see how that could be accomplished or produce any results after the
