During a meeting with PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Thursday, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani stipulated ‘action’ against PML-Q legislator and Minister for Housing Faisal Saleh Hayat, DawnNews reported.
The prime minister said he was being pressurised by his party leadership and members to act against Hayat who petitioned a case in the Supreme Court against his own government for corruption and mismanagement in the setting up of rental power projects (RPPs.)
Gilani said the housing minister was free to carry on with the case but not before resigning from his current portfolio.
In 2009, the federal government approved RPPs for generating 2,206MW of electricity to tide over the shortfall. But the project became controversial after Hayat, a vociferous opponent of the government’s power policy, came up with serious allegations of corruption against former water and power minister Raja Pervez Ashraf.
Shujaat on the other hand, assured the prime minister that he would meet and try to convince the housing minister one more time.