Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) senior leader and former federal minister for food & Agriculture Alhaj Sikandar Hayat Bosan has accused the Punjab government headed by Mian Shahbaz Sharif of causing a loss of Rs 7 billion through bad governance in the Information technology sector and wasting Rs 12 billion on Sasti Roti scheme.
Talking to newsmen here on Monday former Minister said that present provincial Government had totally neglected the Southern Punjab. Funds allocated for development schemes were transferred to Lahore and work stopped even on on-going schemes. Bosan said that Mian Nawaz Sharif had given a three-day ultimatum to PPP Government to divert the attention of the masses from real issues.
He said Nawaz Sharif has forgotten to issue a deadline to the provincial government to trace corruption, mismanagement and bad governance. Bosan said the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief should have issued a 12-point agenda to the Punjab government, which he said, had violated all democratic norms in politics and promoted turncoats, which was against the spirit of the Charter of Democracy (CoD) he had signed with the Pakistan People's Party (PPP).
He said the PML-N should accept the mandate of other political parties, as it had promised in the CoD and stop patronising turncoats of other parties in pursuit of the party's lust for power.
Bosan said that the PML-N government had caused Punjab to go bankrupt, although when PML-Q left the government, the province had Rs 250 billion in surplus. He added that in the IT sector alone, the PML-Q government had made long-term plans and investments while the incumbent government, through its bad management, had caused a loss of Rs 37 billion annually to the sector.
Bosan said bad management in the sector had not only halted investment, but has deprived poor students of thousands of scholarships and subsequent chances of good jobs. He said through schemes like the Sasti Roti scheme and ill-conceived plan of constructing IT labs, Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif had allowed siphoning off of billions of rupees.