Sarwar terms Punjab budget ‘part two’ of federal budget

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader and former governor of Punjab, Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar, has termed the Punjab budget part two of the federal budget.

According to a press release, he said that the provincial finance minister had made a new record of stunts.  He said that allocation of Rs85 billion in the budget for metro train and Rs30 billion for clean water was quite unfair and unjustified. 

Two hundred thousand children died each year due to drinking dirty water in Punjab, but the government was not interested in saving lives, he said. The allocation of Rs90 billion for police in the budget was a reward from the government “for the rising crime rate in the province”, he said while talking to different delegations at his office. 

He said that the government’s only priority was the metro train project instead of health and education.  During the reign of the present regime, Punjab had only witnessed increase in the crime rate and brutal, state-sponsored violence by police due to political use of the police in the province, said the PTI leader.  He said that the increase in police budget was nothing more than a reward for the police.