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Look at the status and attendance in jalsa , this will not be shown by the controlled media. Secondly , look at the charged crowd and the passion and enthusiasm in them to see their leadership. I t can never be compared to the Musharraf paid crowd .Let's look at the capacity vs people on ground in a way that favours PMLN.
The stadium's sitting capacity on stairs is 18000. The stairs section in all of the pics posted by Maryam with supporters is where the big white panaflex with local leadership faces is installed. That section with supporters sitting in numbers is 1/4th of the rest of stadium.
Even if we consider it half of the stadium's sitting capacity, which is a long stretch by any margin...that is not very much...Even if we side with pmln then it makes only 7000 people...as we see that people are sitting sparingly on the rest of the half of total stairs sitting area.
PMLN POV stats:
Total=18000
Section packed=4500
Rest of the area= 2500.
The people's capacity in the actual park or ground is 50,000 (+ - 5000.)
The section cordoned off in front of stage for security distance is atleadt 1/5th of total ground if not 1/4...Let's favour PMLN and consider it only 1/5th.
The sections on either side are also cordoned off, left and right flank of main section in front of stage...even if we tilt it in favour of PMLN, can easily be considered at least 1/5th of total ground on the sides are those parts that were cordoned off.
That makes at least 2/5 ground of 50,000 capacity not occupied...So even if the rest of the ground was jam packed then it is safe to say that 30,000 people were at the venue in front of stage.
It does not look like 30,000 from any footage as there were empty spots especially in the back and near exits but let's give that number to PMLN to be happy.
Total supporters from PMLN POV:
Sitting = 7000
Standing on Ground = 30000
Total= 37,000
After the Jehlum Jalsa debacle, PMLN was prepared to not let things to chance...it was a matter of pride.
Considering for a sitting government with resources to pull in people from all over as well as local government and administrative workers that are part and parcel of such government gatherings...
37000 people is a respectable jalsa, not huge by any stretch of imagination but Reminds us of Musharraf Jalsa in front of Parliament on May 12 had similar attendance.
One thing is obvious, the winds of south Punjab are no longer with PMLN and this Jalsa is a huge embarrassment for leadership with open eyes and ears when compared with PMLN jalsas of the past.
I agree to most of your analysis except southern punjab, In southern punjab only 6 Mnas of sooba mahaz have left and 3 of them were elected as independents and later joined Pmln after 2013 elections. Southern punjab has roughly 40 seats and Pmln holds them still after these joinings. I have the news that the people with corruption files have joined the sooba mahaz to get rid of the nab cases while most of the MNAs with clean reputation have refused to join PTI. On ground the party which has least following (except multan city) is PTI. So PTI will cling some of these electable seats but majority chunk will go to Pmln.power house of PML N is north punjab
in 102 seats in north Punjab(Look at the heavy concentration of seats in big urbanising districts: Lahore (14), Faisalabad (10), Rawalpindi (7), Gujranwala (6), Sargodha (5), Sialkot (5), Kasur (5), and Okara (5). That’s a treasure trove of 57 seats from eight districts.), in 2013 the PML-N had won 95. if they even get let say 70 seats or even 50 seats from northern punjab they will still form govt with
coalition with ANP, JUI, azad and AWP etc or even with PPPP/MQM
in short the educated urban areas of northern punjab who always stick to PML N will vote for them again and the decide fate of pakistan
in south its game of paying corrupt people and lanlords and PML N is good at it
dont be surprsed if PTI gets more total votes and yet is unable to form govt..northern punjab educated class is the key, so far gullop polls show that PML N still is more popular though margin has decreased
previoulsy i thought it will be clean sweep by PM LNbut bad luck for them..
they lost southern punjab to PTI and havent able to solve laod shedding, PTI retains seats in KPK which will make PTI second biggest party
but i think with help of ANP, JUI, MQM, balochistan indpendents PMAP PML N will form govt,
this is because of these 102 northern punjab seats assuming it gets even 60+ seats in this group , it should emerge as single largest party
this is sad story similar to MQM, JUI and PPPP