Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Sunday criticised Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif-led federal government for its “anti-people” policies.
“Instead of spending funds on charitable projects, the current government is running behind colourful buses,” the PPP chairman said while addressing a gathering at a mass marriages ceremony organised by Bahria Town in Lahore.
The PPP chairman accused the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) of slapping its label on the projects conceived by the PPP.
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“The PML-N is renaming the projects initiated by the PPP and re-launching them with its own name,” he said, adding that the country was in dire need of charitable organisations.
Bilawal claimed that the ruling party had imposed fresh taxes of Rs 40 billion on the poor without the parliament’s endorsement, thereby increasing the rate of inflation and unemployment in the country.
Criticising the prime minister’s Rs 341 billion Kisan Package, Bilawal said the poor farmers were being neglected by the government and nothing was being done for providing them relief. The PPP chairman urged the federal government to spend more on food, health and education for the poor than what it was currently spending.
Bilawal’s speech comes in the wake of rising criticism against his own government in Sindh over poor management of health and food facilities across the rural areas of the province, especially the famine-stricken areas of Tharparkar and Mithi.
On Saturday, representative of farmers’ bodies in Sindh pledged to protest against the pricing issue with the Sindh government and the sugar mills. At a luncheon in Hyderabad, the farmers’ representative bodies briefed Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MNA Arif Alvi about the issue and sought the party’s support for their demands.
“Protest is the only way to solve this issue because the [Sindh] government is playing partisan with the millers, especially the Omni group,” Alvi said, referring to a company that controls several sugar mills allegedly owned by PPP co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari.
Spending money on mega projects creates big business for cement and steel producers who fund the PML-N's election campaigns to ensure their victory in general elections. On top, mega projects generate mega kickbacks deposited in secret accounts (owned by you know who) of shady paper companies registered in dodgy tax havens abroad well known depositories of dirty money. National priorities are tossed in the dustbin in favour of electoral benefit and personal gain to the tune of billions. This is how democracy is never in danger and keeps maturing. As for Bilawals hypocritical diatribe, PPP has no use or purpose for mega projects, unlike PML-N, PPP prefers to pocket the lot. Mr Bilawal, your diatribe is seen by discerning Pakistanis as a bigger crook criticizing a lesser crook.
Well well well. Want to compare who has earned more from commissions and projects ? Is hammam me sab nange hain Riaz.
Four decades on, the poor people of this country are still waiting for Roti, Kapra aur Makan. Easy to blame others. Bilawal Zardari has to know his parameters (auqat) before pointing finger at a Prime Minister (thrice) and look after the dying people of Thar who are dying of starvation.
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