Lahore:
Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shahbaz has said that he will risk his life but will not wait for subsidy on flour. Imran Khan could not fulfill a single promise made to the nation.
Addressing a press conference in Lahore, Hamza Shahbaz said that such a constitutional crisis had never occurred in the history of the Punjab Assembly for three months.
A meeting of the Punjab Assembly was convened four times at a cost of one crore rupees, but four times the meeting was adjourned and a demand was made to present it to the IG Punjab. The budget of the largest province was going to be presented on the one hand and on the other hand the IG and the Chief Secretary were being demanded to be presented.
“We were told to present the IG Punjab and other officers for pardon, so I thought at that time that Allah would ask me if the policeman was killed in front of you and you did not bring him to justice,” he said. Hamza Shahbaz said that this nation has never faced such hunger and misery, I will lay down my life but I will not wait to give subsidy on flour to my people. ۔
He said that Imran Khan could not fulfill a single promise made to the nation in 4 years. The Chief Minister Punjab said that the growth rate in the old Pakistan was 5.8% while in the new Pakistan the growth rate went to negative level.
He said that in the new Pakistan old mothers and daughters had to stand in queues for flour. “It was repeatedly said that there would be a bloody march, but we withdrew our weapons from the police and gave only rubber bullets, but the chief ministers of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan opened fire on the police in the air,” he said. He said that Imran Khan claimed that 2.5 million people would participate in the long march but in March only 2.49 million people were less and he was addressing them.
He said that Imran Khan had said that he would continue his sit-in at D-Chowk till the date of elections was announced, but in one night his wish was fulfilled and he went back to Bani Gala. He said that cases of corruption were registered against him but the court ruled that no evidence of corruption was found.
The Chief Minister said that even today, when I think of a policeman who was martyred during a march, I am saddened. He had said that those constituencies should be opened but Imran Khan even then refused to accept these results.
