The Punjab Assembly on Thursday passed a supplementary budget of Rs 85.6 billion for fiscal year 2017-2018. The supplementary budget contained 40 demands for grants. The demands were for land revenue, provincial excise, industries, general administration, civil works, police, education and health services. All the demands of grants were approved by the House.
In the last session of the Assembly, lawmakers from opposition and treasury benches came to blows and exchanged harsh comments. The commotion erupted when the opposition members, especially from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, fired a broadside at former premier Nawaz Sharif for his recent statement on Mumbai attacks. According to the details, the members of ruling Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz who got up from their seats, marched towards the opposition benches and engaged in a skirmish.
The speaker of the provincial assembly was left with no other option but to persuade the members to calm down, however, the furious legislators ignored the requests. Soon after the clash, the members from the ruling PML-N walked out of the building, however, representatives from both the sides tendered an apology. Opposition Leader Mehmood ur Rasheed and Arif Abbasi from the PTI while Waheed Gul from PML-N apologized on the floor of the House following which normalcy returned to the legislature.
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