Senator Pervaiz Rasheed on Monday said that Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer was acting like a robot — when switched on, he starts speaking against the Punjab government, and stops when switched off.
Talking to Geo TV, Pervaiz said that Taseer did not know that governments were not retail outlets where profit and loss were calculated on a daily basis. He regretted that Taseer “who had been quiet for a while had started issuing negative statements once again”. He alleged that the governor had hobbies other than state affairs. Pervaiz said that Mian Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman held the education portfolio and Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif was himself looking after the Health Ministry affairs. He said that governments must not withhold funds and refrain from spending on public welfare as the people had a right over public finances. He said that Shahbaz had not spent public money on planes or bulletproof vehicles, but used it to supply subsidized flour to the people. “Shahbaz did not spend a penny on himself. He did not purchase even a chair for himself,” he said, adding that Shahbaz would try to supply flour to the people free of cost whenever he got a chance.
Earlier, Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer on Monday said the largest stakeholder of the federation, was presenting a picture of bad governance and the CM did not even bother to visit the Punjab Assembly. He said that even after a passage of two years, the cabinet was incomplete and two important ministries, namely health and education, were yet to have ministers. He said the province was facing a deficit of Rs80 billion whereas all the projects, including the Sasti Roti scheme and the Food Stamp Scheme, proved failures as the government wasted Rs13 billion on both these schemes.
The Punjab governor said the statements of two of PML-N main leaders differed considerably as the party leader Nawaz Sharif’s statements were different from those of his brother Shahbaz Sharif. He said it was strange that Shahbaz Sharif had raised a point about the disqualification of others whereas in reality a British court had declared the Sharif brothers defaulters in the Al-Taufiq Trust case.
Addressing a seminar held in connection with the 82nd birth anniversary celebrations of PPP founder Z. A Bhutto, Taseer said President Asif Ali Zardari would remain in power for the same period, which he spent in prisons due to the politically motivated cases, adding that he would continue holding the office till 2018.
Salmaan Taseer said the PML-N must show patience and that’s why it was named “PML-N Sabireen”. He said all the cases against the PPP leaders were registered in the PML-N governments. The anti-democratic elements “started dancing” immediately after receiving hints of military involvement, he said and added that whenever any dictator subverted the Constitution they remained silent and when any democratic government assumed power they started raising hue and cry. He said even in the PML-N, some “candidates” had come to surface, who had started wearing imported suits.
He said when the process of government formation started, there were long queues of independent candidates outside the Zardari House and the PPP could have easily formed government in Punjab, but he invited the PML-N for the purpose. Taseer said when the president stays in the country, people, who were scared of him, criticized him and when he goes abroad, the same elements again start criticizing him out of frustration. He said political “jugglers” who remained busy predicting that the PPP government would end by December 2009 were proven wrong.
No comments:
Post a Comment