Ch Pervaiz Elahi lashes Punjab government for expanding Metro Bus project

Lahore : PML-Q senior central leader and former Deputy Prime Minister Ch Pervaiz Elahi has said that if billion of rupees spent on jangla bus in Multan if incurred on providing ventilators in hospitals and education in Multan then future of our coming generations would have been secured and better.

Talking to the media, Ch Pervaiz Elahi said further that the governments are supposed to provide employment to the people but here the case is just reverse, jangla bus has rendered those running rickshaws, taxis and local buses unemployed as a result of which crime would increase, for misleading the people Shahbaz Sharif says that this is cheaper travelling facility whereas in reality it is just the opposite, amount to be paid as subsidy has to be paid by the people out of their pockets, after Lahore and Rawalpindi in Multan also jangla bus is being run out of hard earned money of the people, the rulers are just bothered about putting plaques of their names and not concerned about the condition in which people are living.

He said that they are spending money out of public exchequer on putting on advertisements in newspapers and on TV channels; they should have at least provided basic facilities to the people. He said if Rs 28. 88 billion incurred on Multan jangla bus as estimated cost was utilized on providing basic facilities to the people then not only precious human lives could be saved but living standard of the people would also have been improved. He said that people of Multan are saying they are just wondering they do not need jangla bus but ventilators and medicines in hospitals and quality education, city has been divided into two parts through Metro bus, people have not been paid even real cost of their costly land. He said that the sun of oppression of the rulers is about to go down soon.