Talking to reporters at his residence on Sunday, he accused the Sharif brothers of promoting the ‘politics of turncoats’ and said that they had done “everything just to remain in power”.
Accusing the Sharifs of violating key clauses of the Charter of Democracy, he said that they had supported PML-Q dissidents, “promoted nepotism, introduced ridiculous schemes, converted a province in surplus to one with a debt of Rs250 billion and destabilised law and order, health and education”.
He said that Nawaz Sharif conveniently forgot the failures of the Punjab chief minister while threatening the federal government.
He said that after defrauding people through the Sasti Roti Scheme, the Punjab government was going to spend Rs30 billion on another bogus scheme, the crime rate in the province had surged by 60 per cent, an inexperienced team of bureaucrats had been inducted and honest officials were being transferred.
In response to Pervaiz Elahi’s assertions, Punjab government’s spokesperson Senator Pervaiz Rashid said that Elahi left for the Punjab government a legacy of a grand robbery in the Bank of Punjab, consumed Rs2.5 billion on personal advertisements, increased the estimated cost of the Ring Road and Lahore-Kasur projects.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 10th, 2011.
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