Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Emir Sirajul Haq has rejected the increase in electricity tariff and demanded the government make public the IMF agreement.
Talking to different delegation, he said the per unit price would touch Rs55 after inclusion of different taxes in electricity bills.
The rulers, the JI emir said, were bent upon sucking the blood of the poor masses instead of making small sacrifices of their own luxuries and protocols. “The ruler of the poor country, he said, lived like kings, utilizing state resources and leaving nothing for the poor. The two percent elite, he said, captured 90 percent of the national wealth.”
Amid the unprecedented financial crunch, he said, the number of prime minister’s federal cabinet was 85. Could a country caught in a worst debt trap afford this size of the cabinet, he questioned. The government had planned to collect Rs500 billion from the poor people with the recent increase in power tariff, Haq said.
