Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar has said that Modi government has paved the way for the balkanization of India through controversial Citizenship (amendment) Act, 2019.
In a statement, he said that even the Indian citizens were agitating against this black law and asserted that a country where students’ voice is oppressed was just a large-scale prison. Torture of JNU students is a black mark on the face of Modi government, he added. The sham Indian democracy has deprived the citizens of their nationality without any justification.
On the other side, minorities were enjoying exemplary rights in Pakistan in accordance with the vision of Quaid-e-Azam, he added. Narendra Modi should set right his house as Pakistani minorities were totally safe, secure and satisfied and marriage laws have been formulated for Sikhs and other religious minorities in Punjab, concluded the chief minister.
Chief Minister Usman Buzdar has set an example of austerity by curtailing CM’s Office expenditures. Rs 8.62 crore was spent in the head of entertainment and gifts during the financial year 2016-17 and around Rs 9 crore were spent under this head in 2017-18.
During the tenure of the incumbent chief minister, Rs 5.38 crore were spent on entertainment and gifts in the financial year 2018-19 and Rs 2 crore have been spent under this head during the current financial year (till November).
In a statement, Chief Minister Usman Buzdar said that austerity policy was being strictly followed by the Punjab government. Unnecessary expenditures were against public interest and a new tradition has been set by curtailing expenditures. The lavish spending culture of the previous government has been totally done away with and the government kitty was being used on public welfare only, concluded the chief minister.
The CM has said that he was deeply saddened over the loss of precious lives and properties due to snowfall and land-sliding in Azad Kashmir and Balochistan. In a statement, he said that Punjab government was standing with the affected people adding that it was ready for their help and people in need should not consider them alone. He also prayed for early recovery of the injured.
