PPP factsheet trumpets PML-N’s three-year failures

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The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has released a fact sheet on the performance of the Punjab government and declared the PML-N’s three-year term full of delinquencies, failures and irregularities. PPP leader Shaukat Basra issued the fact sheet through a press release on Sunday, saying the PML-N government had wasted billions of rupees in the name of Sasti Roti Scheme.
Basra said Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, who chanted slogans of an “educated Punjab” on coming to power and announced establishing an information technology university at 8 Club Road (CM Secretariat), did not keep his promise despite the passage of three years. He said the Sharif brothers had at least 13 sugar mills and they deliberately created an artificial sugar shortage in the province, while the corrupt people involved in the Sasti Roti Scheme were saved by the Punjab government.
The PPP leader said Shahbaz had attended the assembly session only seven times of the total 26 sessions, He said the opposition had requested him thrice to attend the assembly sessions, but Shahbaz did not bother to comply. The opposition leader said the PML-N-led Punjab government was dealing with the people of the province with “state power” and sending protesting farmers, labourers, clerks, doctors, teachers to jail for demanding their rights through peaceful demonstration.
Basra added that due to the negligence of the PML-N government, funds of over Rs 1.2 billion of the Health Department had not been used, while funds released for improvement of 1,309 schools had been misappropriated. He said the Shahbaz-led government was politically victimising opponents, as it had demolished several plazas in Lahore but had spared the illegally constructed plaza of Law Minister Rana Sanaullah.