Rigging won’t end without reforms: Pervaiz

LAHORE
A delegation headed by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Punjab Organiser, Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar, held a meeting with Pakistan Muslim League-Q senior central leader and former Deputy Prime Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi at his residence here Tuesday, during which need was stressed upon electoral reforms for ending electoral rigging and the election of really people's representative government.
The PTI delegation included Mian Mahmood-ur-Rasheed, Abdul Aleem Khan and Nadeem Khan, whereas the PML-Q Punjab General Secretary Ch Zaheeruddin Khan, Moonis Elahi and Mian Munir were also present during the meeting. Talking to the media, Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi said that projects like jangla bus and orange train were not for public welfare but for committing corruption of billions of rupees. Look at Nandipur Power Project, which is lying closed but its advertisements are running, present rulers have not added a single megawatt to power generation; there are neither beds nor medicines in hospitals of Lahore, five patients are lying on one bed; our constructed Surgical Tower has not been made functional, clean drinking water is not available in the provincial metropolis, lawlessness is so aggravated that every day 200 robbery incidents are being committed, those who raised slogan in the budget of not levying new taxes, have imposed new taxes of Rs40 billion, they are not concerned and realisation about problems of people who have neither employment nor protection, all claims of the government have proved false, he added.
Pervaiz Elahi further said emphatically that all opposition parties will have to go along together, rigging will not end without electoral reforms, candidates go home on winning and he is defeated by tampering the results overnight. Ch Muhammad Sarwar said that now post-polling rigging was being committed after local government elections;
N-League candidates who were defeated with small margin of votes were being declared successful in the name of recounting; all institutions and public servants in Punjab have been involved in politics, rigging will also be committed in the third phase of LG polls, he added.
Expressing gratitude to Ch Pervaiz Elahi for honouring the delegation, he said that all opposition parties would have to evolve a strategy together to give tough time to the government; allies of the government, PPP leaders now also have spoken against rigging of the government. He demanded setting up of the Punjab Finance Commission so that funds could be equally utilised in all areas of the province.