The Chairman of National Assembly Standing Committee on Education Abid Sher Ali on Friday demanded of the Punjab government to take stern action against the officials of the Rawalpindi Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (RBISE) and the police officials involved in MNA Haji Pervez's impersonation case.
Addressing a press conference here, Sher said that his party has taken immediate action against the MNA for his involvement in the fraud case and the government should also take similar action against the officials of the Board and police officials who were accomplice in the illegal act.
He said that it was his duty to investigate and reach out rest of the hands involved in this case despite the findings of the committee in Haji Pervez's case and final decision by PML-N Quaid Mian Nawaz Sharif who has admitted the wrongdoing of his MNA.
Sher urged Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif to not only suspend the Board and police officials but also register case of misconduct against them. He said the Board officials have become 'Mafia' adding it was his duty to bring to the fore their real faces. "Because of their irregularities future of thousands of students is at stake," Abid added.
He accused them of changing the statements recorded in front of private member committee and the NA Standing Committee and cited the examples of proceedings of the NA Standing Committee the other day, where the Board and police officials were called to record their statements.
He dispelled the impression that he had made any effort to defend Haji Pervez at the meeting of the standing committee or asked anyone to do so. He said that the news published in the papers about favouritism were baseless and without logic. He was of the view that Mian Nawaz Sharif set an unprecedented example in the national politics while taking immediate action against the party lawmaker.
Sher claimed that according to the investigations it was a well-planned move by some quarters with the help of the Board and police officials maintaining that he will not leave any stone unturned to expose the real faces of the criminals.