PESHAWAR
Amun Taraqqi Party (ATP) chairman Muhammad Faiq Shah has fired broadsides at members of treasury and opposition benches over creating ‘commotion’ and verbal ‘slugfest’ in yesterday’s joint session of the parliament.
In his several tweets here on Tuesday, Shah said that in yesterday’s joint sitting, the lower house of the parliament became a noisy fish market as Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf ended its long boycott and participated in the session.
Spirit of the parliament has been diminished by frenzy and frisk fight between members of the treasury and opposition benches, he added.
He maintained the disruptive and disrespectful heckling that had happened in yesterday’s joint session of the national Assembly, was bringing the parliament into disrepute.
Faiq took a jibe at the politicians and ruling elites for participation in the joint session of the parliament for the sake of personal gains.
The ATP chairman said parliament has been made personal servants wherein only interests of the elite class are being protected.
Legislation had never been made for the best interest of the country and its people, he added.
In a time when the country is going through a severe economic and social crisis that politicians were needed to come up with a holistic strategy to overcome it but traditional
‘Tug of war’ and verbal onslaught on each other was witnessed, which is highly deplorable, Shah remarked.
The party leader continued to say that parliament, law and rules had been made a joke.
He said the role of national institutions has been deliberately made controversial.
Rulers and politicians have been busy in protection of their vested interests, he added.
Shah questioned: “How can we call it a democracy and public service when politicians have confronted each other for personal gains”?
No one is paying heed to miseries of inflation-hit people, he added.
Shah maintained rulers have completely deviated from their commitments and raised non-serious issues to hide their failure.
Everyone wants to run the country and parliament on their own desires, he added.
He said his party will hold strict accountability and assessment of all those who made mockery with parliament, laws, rules and kept deprived people from economic and social justice.
Faiq said ATP is carrying out a vigorous campaign for public power and authority across the country.
He claimed that a large number of people have become part of this campaign which is being carried out from Khyber to Karachi and Kashmir to Gilgit Baltistan.
