Shahbaz responsible for load shedding in Punjab: Elahi

Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) leader and Senior Federal Minister Chaudhry Pervez Elahi has said that the so-called “Khadim-e-A’ala” 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, Elahi said by opposing the Shujat Formula in the Energy Conference, Shahbaz had established he was not sincere to the people of Punjab. He maintained that if the Shujaat Formula was sincerely implemented, electricity load shedding would be eliminated from the country immediately. He said if Punjab was the elder brother, then it should make its contribution and pay the money for ending the electricity load shedding. He said the rulers of Punjab were not shouldering their responsibilities and instead inciting the people against the federation. The PML-Q leader 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.
Elahi said the Punjab government had totally failed, as in his tenure, doctors were returning to Pakistan from the US and Saudi Arabia and under the present government, doctors were out there on roads on strike and protesting and there was none to look after the patients. “We had given free medicines for patients in the emergencies of the hospitals and they have snatched even that facility from the patients,” Elahi said, adding that Shahbaz should compare his four-year rule with his tenure and the difference would be clear and visible. He said that the present government of Punjab instead of carrying forward welfare projects launched during his tenure, closed down all such projects aimed at the welfare of the people.
Recalling various welfare works launched for the welfare of the people during his tenure, Elahi said his government provided 1122 Emergency Service, established Cardiology Hospital at a cost of Rs 3 billion in Wazirabad and were generating employment opportunities for 12,000 people every year, but the people of Punjab were now committing suicides due to persisting and mounting unemployment. He said the crime rate in the province had increased by 33 percent, which was an ample proof of failure of the government.