The Opposition will come forward in a collaborated form and give a hard time to the government and will put hurdles in the way of passing the budget, PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif and PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari revealed today.
Talking to the press with Shahbaz after the parliament’s budget session, Bilawal stated that the people who might have been heeding to Minister for Finance Shaukat Tarin as he revealed the government’s plans “must have been thinking that this is some other country’s budget”.
Bilawal stated it did not seem at all like the budget Pakistan looks forward to, with its “historic inflation, unemployment, and poverty”.
“The prime minister and finance minister’s claims of economic growth are baseless amid such a situation.”
The PPP chairman said the finance ministers’ statements were similar to “rubbing salt in the wounds” of the Pakistanis who are “suffering” due to the government’s policies.
“All differences among the Opposition parties aside, we will collectively respond to this selected and incompetent government’s budget […] I reiterate my promise that all of PPP’s MNAs will entrust their votes to Opposition Leader Shahbaz Sharif to use against this government’s budget,” he said.
Meanwhile, Shahbaz said the Opposition would work together give a hard time to the government in the budget session and will uncover their “fudged” figures.
“When poor people are dying of hunger, unemployment and inflation are skyrocketing, how can they claim that the country is witnessing economic growth?” the Opposition leader asked.
