Government follows the agenda of development : PM Abbasi

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Islamabad,March 30 (APP):Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Friday said Imran Khan also voted PPP in Senate election despite having alleged Asif Zardari of buying PTI’s 14 senators. He said the sanctity of the vote would be undermined if such politics continued. He expressed his views while addressing at a public gathering in Sargodha.

He said the PML-N was proud of using not even single penny in the Senate election and challenged both Imran Khan, Asif Zardari and Senate Chairman to prove their innocence. The prime minister who earlier unveiled plaques to launch three mega development projects, said both Pervez Musharraf and Zardari had failed to carry out development projects like gas and power supply, roads, dams or canals.

He said as the incumbent government assumed power, the country used to import a million ton of fertilizer and also inherited gas and power crises, closed power plants and industries. Contrarily, he said today the government was executing gas projects worth 11 billion only in Sargodha which would increase the supply threefold and end the load shedding.

He said throughout the country, one could see the development projects executed by only the PML-N government be it is roads, hospitals or colleges contrary to previous governments which used to work for minting money.

Regarding the court cases against Nawaz Sharif, the prime minister said they did not expect any justice from accountability court. He said there were no strong evidences nor any corruption allegations against the former prime minister who had left the office within no time of his disqualification by the Supreme Court just on the basis of a residential permit (Iqama).

He told the gathering that the government did not allow the sit-ins or court cases to impede the course of national development and carried out development projects even more than Sindh, KP and even those done during last 65 years.

Mentioning the generation of 10,500 megawatt during this tenure, the prime minister said there was enough electricity to cope with the requirement however there could be some local issues. Recounting his government’s credits of bringing down the inflation, and improving the economic growth from 3 percent to 5.7 percent, the prime minister said the 1700-kilometer long motorways was being constructed or nearing completion.

As requested by the local parliamentarians, the prime minister agreed over the establishment of a women university, cancer and children hospital besides gas supply to the rest of the localities of the city. He hoped that the PML-N would claim even more seats in the upcoming general elections.

APP/Zub/ VNS, Islamabad