PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has been chastised on social media for what has been described as an “elitist” move-in handing over a water bottle to Minister for Information Sindh Saeed Ghani to open and return to him.
Bilawal was seen sitting alongside Ghani and Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah while addressing a news conference in Karachi in a video that went viral on Facebook.
The PPP Chairman takes a bottle of water and for a brief period tries to open the cap’s plastic seal. Even though Ghani was seen reaching out to help him before Bilawal pushed the bottle his way, folks were enraged, wondering why he couldn’t do such a simple chore on his own.
Ghani’s “throwing” of the seal and the bottle cap irritated one user.
Another reader expressed similar comments, claiming that tossing the wrapper is the “only issue” they have. “These are their manners,” the user commented.
Another user sarcastically commented that the encounter is a “wonderful show of democracy captured on tape,” referring to the PPP’s oft-repeated assertion that it is the country’s sole truly democratic party.
“He should have just held the bottle for him as well while he drank from it,” they added, adding, “It would have been an even better show of democracy.”
One user thought it was significant that he passed on the bottle himself when he might have prevented it. The user wrote, “Give credit where credit is due.”
Seeing the bright side, this user pointed out that providing someone with water to drink is a good deed for which Ghani will be rewarded.
They said, “One should not make a mountain out of a molehill like this.”
This user, on the other hand, was not in a good mood and referred to the events as a “black mark” that depicts our political system “.
“They consider the people around them to be their servants, to say nothing of the general public.
The user wrote, “Even Oxford couldn’t put a dent [in such behavior].”
If Bilawal had opened the bottle cap himself, one person pondered if he would have “burned 25 calories.”
