Opposition parties in the Punjab Assembly Saturday staged a protest from the assembly to the Chief Minister’s House at the Mall and staged a sit-in against criminal negligence of the Punjab government in controlling the dengue outbreak in the province, which resulted in deaths of more than 200 people.
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslin League-Q members’ assembly participated in the protest and sit-in who chanted against the Punjab government.
Addressing the gathering, Punjab Opposition Leader Raja Riaz said that Shahbaz Sharif was responsible for dengue epidemic which has killed over 200 people in the province as “one man show” was being observed in Punjab.
He said no Health minister had been appointed in the province for a long time and this kinds of negligence caused deaths of hundreds of people due to dengue outbreak. He said robbers ruling the province at night and dengue at day time.
Punjab government sent mineral water bottles for participants of the sit-in but they refused to take water from the government.
Earlier, reacting over the protest and sit-in of the opposition, Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said that it was in retaliation to the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) protest and sit-in outside the presidency. He said that the Punjab government would offer refreshments to the opposition.
Opposition sit-in outside CM house
