Opp MPs ignored in mosques\u2019 solarization project: ANP MPA
\nAbdul Hakeem Mohmand
\nPESHAWAR
\nThe issue of excessive, unscheduled and unannounced electricity loadshedding echoed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly as lawmakers from the opposition strongly flayed the issue and called for an end to the power outages in the province.
\nThe ANP\u2019s parliamentary leader Sardar Hussain Babak said that excessive loadshedding continues unabated across the province but the government members were absent from the house to debate on the issue. \u201cIs there no loadshedding in the constituencies of government members?\u201d Babak asked.
\nAll electric appliances fail to function due to the low voltage across the province, he told the house. \u201cNow as the PTI is in power in the province and centre so it needs to resolve this longstanding problem once and for all,\u201d Babak said.
\nHe claimed the constitution has given the right to the province to fix the electricity rates but people despite being deprived of light daily for most of the hours, are forced to pay hefty bills. \u201cLeave alone overbilling, the people in KP have been subjected to massive loadshedding despite the province being generating the cheapest electricity and providing it to the rest of the country,\u201d the former minster said. \u201cThe PTI policies have turned its supporters into its worst critics,\u201d he said, demanding that the Wapda House should be shifted from Lahore to Islamabad.
\nOther legislators also raised the pressing problem of loadshedding. The assembly\u2019s session was adjourned on a note that the electricity issue will be taken up at the next meeting.
\nAnother ANP\u2019s lawmaker, Khushdil Khan, pointed out that the provincial government had launched a project to install solar panels in about 4000 mosques in the province but constituencies represented by opposition MPs were completely ignored from this facility. \u201cThis project has been included in ADP and every member, whether from government or opposition, has equal right on it. \u201cCan any minister inform that there are no mosques in constituencies of opposition members,\u201d Khushdil Khan asked and vowed to continue his struggle for the rights of people of his area.
\nHe said that the government follows policies of nepotism, cronyism and favouritism, pointing out that even PTI\u2019s members of National Assembly have been given funds from the provincial pool to install solar panels at mosques in their areas. \u201cThe so-called slogan of justice for all turned out to be hollow and shallow.
\nAccording to Khushdil Khan, his only fault was that he had defeated the present governor Shah Farman in general elections. \u201cIf justice is not dispensed, I would file a writ petition in the High Court,\u201d he warned. Similar claims were made by other opposition parties.
\nReplying to opposition\u2019s queries, law minister Sultan Muhammad Khan said that the project of the mosques\u2019 solarization was started by the previous government. He said that solar systems would be installed in 4,000 mosques across the province. \u201cMosques should not be politicized,\u201d he said, adding that all issues will be resolved on the assembly\u2019s floor.\u201dOn point of order, JUI-F MP, Islamuddin said that landmines had been laid in Badar area of South Waziristan that had caused several deaths. He said a number of cattle also got killed due to landmines, demanding that the area should immediately be cleared from it. Nigat Orakzai along with other female opposition MPAs walked out from the house, complaining that no female MP was made a member of the public accounts committee (PAC). She also announced to resign from population welfare committee\u2019s chairmanship.
\nThe meeting of KP Assembly was adjourned till the August 31. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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