Punjab Chief Minister, Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that he would set up protest camp in ever city of the province in order to save the people of Punjab from the affects of inequitable and cruel load shedding. He said, before the commencement of Ramazan-ul-Mubarak, he was given a message by the Federal government that uniformed load shedding would be implemented throughout the country, therefore, he should end his tent office.
Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif said that he knew full well that the Federal government was, as always, lying, and my assessment proved to be right. The Chief Minister was talking to the workers of PML-N at his Tent Office set up against load shedding in Okara, here on Saturday. Shahbaz Sharif said that it seems that the conscience of the Federal rulers has died and they have no realisation of the fact that employment has been snatched from the people as a result of 16 hours long load shedding in all cities of the province. He said that small scale business have been destroyed, whereas irretrievable damage is being caused to agriculture. The Chief Minister said that, instead of sitting in air-conditioned rooms, we have decided to fight against the cruel rulers of Islamabad by sitting openly in hot weather without electricity. He also said that the residents of those cities of Pakistan where there is no load shedding or its duration is short, ought to express their solidarity with their Pakistani brethren living in Punjab by supporting the demand of equitable load shedding. He said that if there had been discriminatory load shedding against any other province he too would have stood firmly with the people of that province.
He noted that the rate of electricity theft in Punjab is minimum while the rate of its payment is maximum, but despite that, Punjab is being targeted regarding worst load shedding in the history. The Chief Minister added that load shedding can be ended by generating 4000 MW electricity through coal and 2000 MW through sugarcane. He observed that power projects planned to be established in Nandipur and Chicho Ki Maliyan could not be operationalized due to criminal negligence of the Federal government.