LAHORE - PTI Punjab chapter leader Ahsan Rasheed Sunday admitted grouping in the party and claimed that these factions would come to an end with intra-party polls to be held after completion of the membership drive.
He expressed these views while addressing a press conference at party’s central secretariat. Ahsan said that other major political parties had also various groups among their ranks and the PTI was not different in this context. He demanded early polls under new voter lists and claimed that the federal and provincial governments had completely failed to deliver.
Commenting on the Punjab budget 2012-13, he challenged the chief minister to make a sample budget for a labourer’s household in Rs9000 and if he succeeds in it, the people would accept him their servant. He alleged that the Punjab government had wasted Rs4billion on laptop scheme instead of spending on the poor and more than 11000 schools in the province, which lack basic necessities like electricity, water and furniture.
Ahsan remarked that the provincial government has not produced a single megawatt of the electricity after the passage of the 18th Amendment and feared that budget allocation for the energy sector would be spent only in the feasibility process. He maintained that there were no incentives for the farmer class in the budget, which was the backbone of the country.
The PTI leader asserted that Rs246billion allocated for uplift schemes would be utilised in corrupt practices, while all development work would be restricted to Ferozepur and Raiwind roads.