Shahbaz responsible for power outages in Punjab: Elahi

Pakistan Muslim League senior central leader and Senior Federal Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi said on Wednesday that so-called “Khadam-e-Aala” was responsible for electricity load shedding in Punjab.
Speaking as the chief guest at the oath taking ceremony of newly elected office-bearers of All Pakistan Pottery Manufacturers Association in Gujrat on Wednesday, Ch Parvez Elahi said by opposing the Shujaat Formula in the Energy Conference, Shahbaz Sharif showed insincerity with the people of Punjab.
He added that if Shujaat Formula had been implemented, electricity load shedding would be eliminated from the country immediately. He said if Punjab was the elder brother, it should make its contribution and pay the money for ending the electricity load shedding. Continuing, he charged that the rulers of Punjab were not shouldering their responsibilities and instead inciting the people against the federation.
He said they were holding demonstrations against electricity load shedding but not ready to implement the Shujaat Formula presented for elimination of this menace from the country. He said further that the Punjab Government had totally flopped. He said in our tenure, doctors were returning to Pakistan from the USA and Saudi Arabia and in their tenure now, doctors were out there on roads on strike and protesting and there was no one to look after the patients and provide treatment even in the emergency cases.
He said we had given free medicines for the patients in the emergencies of the hospitals and they had also snatched that facility also from the patients. Throwing a challenge, Ch Parvez Elahi said that Shahbaz Sharif should compare his four years rule with our tenure and the difference would be very clear and visible.
He said the present government of Punjab instead of carrying forward welfare projects launched during our tenure, closed down all such projects aiming at welfare of the people. He said instead of criticising us, they should first do the welfare works like us, which the people were still remembering.
Recalling the various welfare works launched and started for the welfare of the people during their tenure, Ch Parvez Elahi said that we had provided 1122 Emergency Service, established Cardiology Hospital at a cost of Rs 3 billion in Wazirabad and we were generating 12 thousand employment opportunities every year and now people in Punjab were committing suicides due to persisting and mounting unemployment.
He said crime rate in the province increased by 33 per cent, which was an ample proof of failure of their government. All Pakistan Pottery Manufacturers Association Patron-in-Chief Zaheer Butt, newly-elected President Azam Rehmani, Senior Vice-President Haji Zahid, Secretary General Shakeel Ahmad Butt, Ch Qamaruzzaman, Mian Imran Masood and Ch Ejaz Warraich also addressed the gathering on the occasion.
Afterwards, pottery makers body Patron-in-Chief Zaheer Butt presented shields as a memento to Ch Parvez Elahi and Mian Imran Masood.