Mudslinging mars PA session

Main discussion of price hike remains out of focus

LAHORE:

Both the treasury and the opposition lawmakers were engaged in mudslinging on each other while the main topic of discussion on price hike of commodities remained unfocused. The Friday session of the Punjab Assembly turned out to be a tough day for the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Pakistanled (PTI) government after the opposition grilled it on its ‘flawed policies’ but there were two Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) lawmakers who were also restrained by their own party leadership from attending the assembly session over a meeting with Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar a few days back. After the question-answer session, the next agenda items were the general discussions on price control and law and order.

The house proceedings started with a delay of two hours 20 minutes under the chair of Speaker Chaudhry Pervez Elahi. As the session started, both the opposition and the treasury benches continued hurling blames on each other about their flawed policies and defending their regimes. Delivering fiery speeches at the general discussion on law and order, PML-N’s Sardar Awais Khan Leghari claimed that the government had learnt a word “NRO” when we talk about its flawed policies; the government would create an impression that the opposition was demanding an NRO.

Leghari further added that being a PML-N political worker, he was not seeking any NRO and would rather prefer to go to jail. Syed Hassan Murtaza from the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) also lashed out at the government claiming that unusually it was the government that faced abusive language from its critics but in PTI’s regime, the government’s lawmakers used abusive language against the opposition in the first two years.

“Every sector has been ruined. There is no progress, no prosperity anywhere. Two PML-N MPAs Mian Jalil Sharkpuri and Maulana Ghiasuddin were humiliated and retrained from attending a session by their party lawmakers.