Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Punjab Lahore has rejected a Punjab government's decision to launch the Orange Line Metro Train project in the provincial capital, with its Punjab President Ejaz Chaudhary claiming the public was shocked at Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif's "obsession with these mega projects".
"After the metro bus projects, Khadam-e-Alla has signed an agreement for a 27-kilometre-long Lahore Orange Line Metro Train project, which will cost more than the budget on health, education or water purification. Pakistan is facing economic disasters while poverty, unemployment and corruption are too high. The nation wants these multifaceted problems to be resolved and not the metro buses or the metro trains," he said.
Then Secretary General Yasmin Rashid joined the anti-project claims, saying there was hardly any limit to "senselessness in the Sharif style of democracy". She said, "What is the use of the metro train if the government cannot provide basic amenities to its people? The Sharif brothers can spend the money allocated for the metro train on barrages and dams to generate electricity which has become a rare commodity because of sheer incompetence of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz ministers. We do not have any rational for this luxury at this moment when our economy is struggling to survive."
Information Secretary Andleeb Abbas too played the same tune, claiming that the Sharif brothers should review their priorities if they really wanted to do something for the country. "The short-sighted Sharif brothers will keep justifying these multi-billion projects as long as their own businesses are minting money," she added.
She also demanded that the government instead divert Rs 147 billion to the health and education sectors.
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