Lahore:Ameer, Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator Sirajul Haq has called for constituting a permanent commission for the National Finance Commission award (NFC) and said that the delay in the grant of the award was a violation of the constitution.
In a statement here on Tuesday, he said that the federation was not serious in sitting with the provinces and resolving issues with them.
He said that the entire nation was in trouble due to the corona virus. Business had collapsed and every citizen was under financial stress. However, he said, the government priority was not to pull the nation out of this stress and it was involving itself in unimportant issues. He said that the people needed precaution as well as food to live.
Sirajul Haq further said that the nation was being unduly burdened with the induction of ministers and advisors, and remarked that the addition of ministers and advisors had only led to the decline in the government’s performance.
He urged the government to ensure the implementation of its announcement for payment of Rs. 12000 to each unemployed person and payment of three electricity bills of the small businessmen by the state. He said that the government had so far not been able to provide medical equipment to the medics and ration and financial relief to the daily wage earners.
Sirajul Haq said that the PTI government has done nothing great except reshuffling of ministers and bureaucrats. He added that millions of daily wage earners, workers, besides those doing private jobs and white-collar people were suffering from hunger but the ruling elite were claiming it was all O. K.
While condemning the abnormal rise in the prices of fruits, vegetates and other necessities of life with the advent of Ramazan, the JI chief demanded stringent action against the mafia involved in profiteering.
The JI chief referred to 15 per cent fresh fall in the world oil prices and called for reducing petrol price by Rs. 40 per liter. He also demanded reasonable cut in the prices of DAP, Urea and other fertilizers besides seeds to facilitate the growers in sowing cotton and rice.
Sixty per cent of the country’s population, he said, lived in the rural areas but the growers were not getting due return for their crops. That was why the agriculture sector was on the decline. He also called for waving off the water rate and abolishing the markup on loan for purchase of farm machinery. The state should also ensure the procurement of wheat from the growers at its fixed price, he added,
Sirajul Haq further said the delay in the forensic report of the sugar and wheat scandal clearly meant that there was something wrong and the ruling elite had deprived the general public of billions of rupees. Same was the case of the power sector, he added.