Summary General Secretary PML-Q MNA Chaudhry Zaheer Khan and Tariq Bashir Cheema also addressed the meeting.
GUJRANWALA (Dunya News) -- Pakistan Muslim League Quaid (PML-Q) Punjab President Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi said that he rejects the package that PM Nawaz Sharif announced for farmers. He said that a convention will be held for farmers in all the districts of Punjab after Eid. He expressed his views while addressing farmers’ convention on Wednesday.
Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi said that the government’s announced relief package is a joke for farmers. He said that farmers are being incurred a loss of Rs 40,000 per acre to farmers while government is only provding relief of Rs 5000. He said Sharif brothers do not know what a farmer is.
He said that government is buying 12 billion worth of tomatoes and 14 billion worth of potatoes from India while not buying from local farmers causing them to go in loss. Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi said that the government had spent billions on metrobus yet no farmer travels on these buses.
He said that there had been corruption in Nandipur power project, He criticized that Shahbaz Sharif quickly reaches to fix if any problem comes up, jesting that one day if a PIA plane comes across a fault, Shahbaz Sharif will try to rectify it himself as well.
Chaudhary Pervaiz Elahi said that farmers enjoyed prosperity under his rule. He said that due to the wrong policies government teachers, doctors, nurses, clerks and everyone including farmers have been protesting on the roads. General Secretary PML-Q MNA Chaudhry Zaheer Khan and Tariq Bashir Cheema also addressed the meeting.
