Secretary General, Jamaat-e-Islami, Liaqat Baloch, has said that the Punjab budget for the next financial year was a routine budget visualizing elections, and provided no relief to the masses. Speaking at an Iftar dinner at Ghaziabad, he said that no mechanism had been proposed to check price hike, adulteration or the production of sub-standard products.
There was an increase in the loans and payable debts. Adequate funds had not been provided for education and health and the demands of the protesting young doctors, teachers, clerks and Paramedics had not been considered. The budget did not suggest any remedy to save the power looms in Faisalabad from total ruin.
Liaqat Baloch said that the corruption mafia was busy in mudslinging in order to obstruct the process of accountability. However, he said that the masses were fully awake and they would definitely win the war against corruption. The JI central leader however said that the respect for the armed forces, the judiciary and the political leadership must be maintained and the Social media activists should not be a part of the mischief. The political leaders and members of the parliament should remain within the limits of decency and self respect. Likewise, the state institutions and the honorable judges of the superior judiciary should keep in mind the sensitivity of the present situation as also the far reaching positive and negative effects of their remarks.
He said that the Ramazan was the month of individual and collective reformation. He said that the profiteers were the enemies of the masses and the society. All those running after personal gains by exploiting the general public were challenging the divine power as also the human beings. However, he said, that if the consumers all over the country were organized, they could overpower the profiteers and adulteration.