PA session scheduled at Faletti’s Hotel on 5th

Quotations were taken from three different hotels

LAHORE: Punjab Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Parvez Elahi along with Provincial Law Minister Muhammad Basharat Raja and Secretary Assembly Muhammad Khan Bhatti visited Faletti’s Hotel to review the arrangements for holding of assembly session there on June 5 and issued necessary orders.

Chaudhry Parvez Elahi said that criticism on the holding of assembly session in a hotel would be defeated.

“We had taken quotations from three different places and the hotel with the lowest rate has been selected,” he said. “It is impossible to hold the session in Aiwan-e-Iqbal because there AC and other facilities are inadequate. Other five-star hotel rates were also very high, then we selected the Faletti’s Hotel with the lowest rates for many reasons.”

He said the hotel was near the assembly building and for parking, assembly ground would be used.

The speaker also visited both the halls declared as the assembly halls and reviewed the seating arrangements for the assembly members under the SOPs, sound system, press gallery, members lobby and a meeting room.

The law minister said it Parvez Elahi had laid the foundation stone of the new assembly building when he was the chief minister of Punjab between 2002 to 2007.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 3^rd, 2020.