LAHORE: Shahbaz Sharif has made Punjab penniless and is selling public assets at throwaway prices, claimed Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid ‘s (PML-Q) leader Pervaiz Elahi while addressing a district worker convention at Gujranwala on Sunday.
“During the PML-Q regime, we gave Rs 8 million to 18 union councils each in Gujranwala and spent Rs 16 billion in five years but Shahbaz did not bother to give even Rs 1600 for the progress of Gujranwala. Not a single cabinet minister in his government is from Gujranwala,” he alleged, adding that 14000 cheques of the current government had bounced and they did not have money to pay salaries.
He asked Shahbaz Sharif to not to stop the construction of Wazirabad Cardiology Hosptial and to improve the unemployment situation as people were committing suicides because of it. Elahi gave a cheque of Rs 1 lakh to the Commonwealth gold medal winner, Muhammad Inam Butt.
Other leaders who spoke include Ch. Muhamamd Iqbal, Anwar Bhander, Zafarullah Cheema, Ashraf Butt, Muhammad Nasir Cheema and Akram Maseeh Gul.
