Critics shouldn’t expect special leniency: NA Speaker

ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq lashed out at Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) during assembly’s session, saying that now the critics shouldn’t expect anymore special leniency.
During usual session of the National Assembly, member PTI Arif Alvi said that PTI did not have any chance to present the bill in the assembly. On this, the speaker lashed out at him and said that PTI’s members did not attend the standing committees and remained absent for six months continuously but they levelled allegations on speaker.
The speaker advised them not to waste their time in levelling allegations and remain concentrated on work. However, he did not stop any bill from the PTI.Sadiq maintained that the PTI members remain indulged in talking to the media but remain absent from the House.
While expressing his serious annoyance on the PTI, he said that baseless accusations were levelled against him. The speaker said, “If I had been at your (Alvi) place I would have opposed PTI’s bill, the higher you level allegations against me, the higher I would remain adhered to principles.”
The speaker further said that before presenting the bill, some members tell the media persons that they have not been given permission but they themselves don’t pay heed towards bills and then blame the speaker office.
Sardar Ayaz Sadiq offered a training workshop for PTI lawmakers to properly learn how to present and introduce any bill in Parliament.The speaker while noticing the introduction of a bill without following the formal legislative procedure by PTI member Arif Alvi suggested that they might go through a course to learn the proper way of presenting the bill.
The speaker offered that his secretariat would arrange such course for them requesting them to come with full preparation when they have to present and introduce the bill. “We can arrange the course for you in the Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services,” the speaker offered.