The drone footage revealed everything taking pictures,from side wont help your cause mate its over
Its easy to fool people by taking pic of empty stadium at the time when supporters leaving stadium to paint some jalsa as failure but election 2018 will decide the fate of political parties .
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 am in Multan these days and i know that all the crowd was local , even Muzaffargarh was not invited which is just 30 mins away from Multan.
