Contentions over budget persist in PA
Opposition questions irrigation, education and Covid expenditures in current fiscal year
Sindh Assembly Session. PHOTO: NNI
KARACHI:
Contentions between the opposition and treasury benches on budget expenditures for the current fiscal year continued on Thursday as the Sindh Assembly prepared to wind up debate on the issue today (Friday).
For the opposition lawmakers, the budget has been merely a jugglery of figures. But the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party lawmakers insist that it was an exemplary budget under which record development took place in almost all sectors of government.
The former continued to grill provincial ministers on the performance of their respective departments. The education and irrigation departments and the Covid-19 expenditures came under scrutiny in the house.
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PA session put off during ruckus over debate on plea bargain beneficiaries
Karachi
January 19, 2021
The proceedings of the Sindh Assembly on Monday were abruptly adjourned as the debate on a call-attention notice on the Sindh government’s action against its officers involved in plea bargain or voluntary return of money related to accountability cases created a ruckus in the House.
The treasury lawmakers belonging to the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and opposition legislators of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) hurled accusations against each other during the discussion on the call-attention notice creating pandemonium in the assembly.
PPP MPA Sharjeel Inam Memon, who was chairing proceedings of the House as part of the panel of the chairmen of the session, failed to restore order and announced the adjournment of the session till January 25.