PTI demands removal of Kh Asif and Abid Sher Ali

Lahore: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Punjab Organizer Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar demanded on Monday the removal of both Federal Minister and Minister of State for Water and Power after NEPRA held them responsible for power load-shedding and over-billing. He also asked for refunding  or adjusting the undue amounts charged to common electricity consumers. A NEPRA report earlier revealed that there was 70% over-billing in electricity charges and there was no shortfall of electricity in the country during last one year. He also stated that deployment of Rangers was necessary for free and fair Local Government polls and by-elections due in October.

Addressing the campaign meetings for NA-122 by-elections in Garhi Shahu, Samanabad and Ichra, he said it was now a fact that government lied to the public about its commitment and seriousness to eradicate load-shedding from the country. It was extreme of callousness on part of the present rulers and worst kind of fraud ever done in any democracy, he added.

He was accompanied by Deputy Organizer Omar Sarfaraz Cheema, by-poll candidates Abdul Aleem Khan, Shoaib Siddiqui, MPA Mian Aslam Iqbal, Women Wing President Salooni Bukhari and others.On this ocassion, Ch Sarwar said that a fraud of this scale was a verdict against the government. There is no credibility left of Khwaja Asif and Abid Sher Ali following the revelation that they themselves were responsible of load-shedding and extorting money from public on account of electricity bills. “They have lost every ground to stay in the office, they must resign immediately”, Ch Sarwar demanded.

We’ve been saying it for long, he told, that their power generation schemes were nothing but facade, they were merely for pomp and show in media and to earn commissions in tenders.The NEPRA report is testimony to the claims of PTI about government’s corruptions, ill-planning, criminal negligence and incompetence.He welcomed the decision of deploying army on polling stations for upcoming by-elections in Lahore and Lodhran.

The government was trying every possible way to steal the mandate in these polls, but now it would not be possible, he stated. The masses were looking towards PTI in these times of bad governance and corrupt practices, Ch Sarwar said while hoping that PTI would emerge victorious with heavy margins in electoral battle ahead.