I hope he addresses that issue before the GE. Once someone has a seat, it’s hard to ask them to hand it over to someone else. We have a shame based culture, and to be asked to resign or even just retire and hand over a seat will make people think they were not loyal enough.
Better to run the candidates you want now, so that people learn who they are before the GE and they have tike to do good work (to show what they can get done if elected) and give stump speeches.
On the issue of personality. I whole heartedly agree. IK is mortal and if he wants the movement he has lead to survive him and the changes to take root, he needs to build up institutions within the party to be primarily meritorious, only siding one way or the other for a more charismatic figure amongst the top 3-4 candidates, because skills like oration still matter when you are trying to sway some of our more emotional people that don’t listen to only logic and reason.
This is why I advocated for along time that PTI needs an academy for statesmanship, perhaps co-chaired by someone like SMQ, to teach key skills such as proper debating from logic and not emotion as well as enough about the law and management to effectively supervise their position in government.
