Agitation aplenty: PPP planning movement against govt
Kaira says PML-N has failed to tackle energy crisis, other issues.
Pakistan Peoples Party leader Qamar Zaman Kaira. PHOTO: APP
LAHORE:
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is planning a movement against the government’s inadequacies as the rulers have failed to address the energy crisis and rising crime. This was stated by PPP Punjab Central President Qamar Zaman Kaira as he spoke at the Lahore Press Club on Monday.
The PPP leader added crucial sectors such as health and education were also deteriorating. Kaira said his party would formally announce its agitation movement at Minar-Pakistan on Thursday after a party meeting. He said PPP had completed all its arrangements to hold the moot.
“If Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif can hold a sit-in at the landmark against load-shedding during the PPP regime, why not us?” He stated PPP never believed in the politics of agitation, but the government was failing to solve common issues.
Speaking about Dawn Leaks, Kaira said the government was showing a non-serious attitude towards the matter. He said that after obtaining permission from his party’s central leadership, he would like to become a party to the case in a personal capacity.
He alleged Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had businesses in India and was selling national assets to friends in the name of privatisation.
Addressing the International Labour Day seminar, Kaira said PPP always raised a voice for workers and labourers. “The PPP government had contributed billions of rupees to the Employees Old-Age Benefits scheme.”
He added the party always struggled to give workers their due rights. He again alleged that the ruling regime ways finding ways to sell state enterprises such as Pakistan Steel Mills, Pakistan Railways and PIA. He said PML-N had increased electricity rates, but failed to provide any power to the common man.
He also hinted at corruption in the Lahore Metro Bus project. Kaira concluded all political parties were demanding the prime minister’s resignation, adding time had come to send the whole lot packing.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 2nd, 2017.
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is planning a movement against the government’s inadequacies as the rulers have failed to address the energy crisis and rising crime. This was stated by PPP Punjab Central President Qamar Zaman Kaira as he spoke at the Lahore Press Club on Monday.
The PPP leader added crucial sectors such as health and education were also deteriorating. Kaira said his party would formally announce its agitation movement at Minar-Pakistan on Thursday after a party meeting. He said PPP had completed all its arrangements to hold the moot.
“If Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif can hold a sit-in at the landmark against load-shedding during the PPP regime, why not us?” He stated PPP never believed in the politics of agitation, but the government was failing to solve common issues.
Speaking about Dawn Leaks, Kaira said the government was showing a non-serious attitude towards the matter. He said that after obtaining permission from his party’s central leadership, he would like to become a party to the case in a personal capacity.
He alleged Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had businesses in India and was selling national assets to friends in the name of privatisation.
Addressing the International Labour Day seminar, Kaira said PPP always raised a voice for workers and labourers. “The PPP government had contributed billions of rupees to the Employees Old-Age Benefits scheme.”
He added the party always struggled to give workers their due rights. He again alleged that the ruling regime ways finding ways to sell state enterprises such as Pakistan Steel Mills, Pakistan Railways and PIA. He said PML-N had increased electricity rates, but failed to provide any power to the common man.
He also hinted at corruption in the Lahore Metro Bus project. Kaira concluded all political parties were demanding the prime minister’s resignation, adding time had come to send the whole lot packing.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 2nd, 2017.