Pervaiz says Shahbaz trying to take credit for his projects

LAHORE: Opposition leader in the Punjab Assembly Mian Mehmoodur Rasheed called on Pakistan Muslim League-Q senior central leader and former Deputy Prime Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi at his residence on Saturday and consulted with him on different names for caretaker Punjab chief minister.

Talking on the occasion, Pervaiz Elahi said that corruption and commission had come to the fore in the "fake schemes" of Shahbaz Sharif even in the Saaf Paani Scheme. He alleged Shahbaz Sharif had been depriving the people of Punjab from their right for last 10 years. He said, "During the last days of his government, Shahbaz Sharif was putting plaques of his name in a hurried manner on the projects which were ready 10 years ago during my government, but these plaques are of no use as the people know whose works these are." He alleged that Shahbaz Sharif had been exposed before the poeple, as they were swindled in the name of Sasta Atta, Tandoor, Ashiana, Quaid-i-Azam solar power and other fake schemes.

He said that during visits of Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Mian Saquib Nisar to different institutions, people had put piles of problems before him, and they wept and narrated the stories of oppression of Punjab government. The PML-Q leaders said the patients told that the facilities of free medicines and free emergency in hospitals which former Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi had given had been ended. Pervaiz Elahi said, "The objective of our politics is service to the common man and provision of basic facilities to people. We served the people for five years and spread a network of development projects for provision of basic facilities. If Allah provided us with another opportunity, we will work more and restart the process of development."