Chandiwala claimed that the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) was “systematically tightening its control” over the province and accused the government of deliberately weakening Karachi’s education boards. He said the unusually high failure rate of Karachi students in matriculation and intermediate exams, along with comparatively lower overall scores, was the consequence of years of neglect and mismanagement.
He argued that after creating this disparity, the government had now announced open-merit admissions at KU, a step PDP firmly opposes. Karachi’s talented students, he said, were being pushed aside while candidates scoring high marks from interior Sindh “fail entry tests of NED University.” He warned that PPP’s “next targets” would be medical and engineering universities.
Criticising other political parties, including MQM, he said they were “only doing cosmetic politics” and not defending Karachi’s rights. PDP, he vowed, would fight the city’s case both in courts and on the streets.
He said that Karachiites were increasingly frustrated. “If we have to fight for our rights, we will – we have done so before and we will do it again.”
Chandiwala blamed the decline in the education sector on the nationalization policies introduced during Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s era, calling them the beginning of the “collapse of the education system.” He added that if the government truly wanted open merit, entrance exams should be conducted through NTS or an independent examination board. Accusing PPP of “stealing both mandate and quota,” he said Karachi’s residents had become unsafe not from external threats but “at the hands of their own rulers.”