Parliamentary Leader of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in Punjab Assembly Syed Hassan Murtaza has said that Prime Minister Imran Khan and his government is betraying the nation and his (PM’s) statements on the flour and sugar crises are like the criminal outcries against the crime.
Talking to people of his constituency in Rajoa Sadat on Sunday, Syed Hassan Murtaza said that Khan Sahib! flour, sugar crisis was not because of mismanagement or weakness but because of your corruption, he blamed. Imran Khan no one else is mafia you are yourself, you are the mafia guardian, all this crisis and corruption is at his behest, as he is the patron of corrupt elements, he added
While holding the incumbent government responsible, the PPP leader said that Imran Khan had admitted that the flour sugar crisis was because of his government’s incompetency, in October 2019, he blamed the government had sent 40,000 metric tons of wheat to Afghanistan, and thus, intentionally had created a wheat crisis to benefit the mafia.
It is absolutely corruption of the government that previously it has facilitated the mafia to rob the nation through exporting, now it has decided to import wheat in March to benefit again its cronies, first the corrupt government allowed export to benefit vested interests, creating a shortage that is later to be fulfilled through imports, it’s second episode of corruption, he said.
Syed Hassan Murtaza said, “You have robbed the nation, and you developed the crisis to reward your financial facilitators.” He demanded that answers be provided to the nation for all this billion Dollar corruption through these crises, and who benefitted from having caused such harm to the country.
He pointed out that the present rulers’ hypocrisy by saying that Chief Minister Punjab says new hospitals will be set up across the province including Lahore, while the Prime Minister says that the government cannot build a new hospital; He asks if this is not deceit and joke with the nation then what else?
The people, tired of the rulers’ tactics, inflation and fraud, are now ready to come out, and if people come out on the streets, there will be flood of people that will not be handled by the government, Hassan Murtaza warned.
