PTI issues ticket to Wakeel Khan Manj to contest on PP 136 Narowal By-election

Lahore: Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf issued ticket to Wakeel Khan Manj to contest on PP 136 Narowal By-election seat being held on 22-May-2014 in a meeting presided by Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi , Secretary General Jehangir Khan Tareen and President Punjab Ejaz Ahmed Chaudhry. Abrar-ul-haq, Barrister Mansoor Sarwer, Nadeem Nisar, Javed Kahloon were also present.

Meanwhile,PTI condemns government on the anti poor policies. PTI President Punjab Ejaz Ahmed Chaudhry commenting on the increasing inflation in the country said that the one year performance of the government had only one direction in all policy and budgets that they had made so far and that all of them are anti poor and pro rich policies.

He said that the recent increases in the prices of eatables and food items have made the life of a common man miserable. He said all claims by the government that they were trying to control prices were untrue and prices of many items like wheat and more recently potatoes has increases 300%. He said that potatoes forms 20 per kg were now being sold at Rs.60 per kg.

Despite that Chief Minister Promise that prices of potatoes will come down to Rs.30 they have remained high. He said that the so is the case with milk prices wheat and many other items. He said that the price control committee which was supportably being monitored by Hamza Shahbaz was complete flop as the cost of having those committees added to even more inflation. He said that Hamza Shahbaz and Bilal Yaseen were using helicopters to go and visit these local markets that a huge cost which was being extracted by increases the prices of basic necessities of the common man.