ISLAMABAD: The opposition has rejected the federal budget as anti-people and claimed that the government didn’t consult any stakeholder.
Talking to reporters outside the Parliament House following the budget was presented, the opposition leader Omar Ayub Khan said that the federal budget did not meet the masses aspirations.
Omar Ayub Khan, who has also served as finance minister in the past, said that there is always mention of the budget volume and deficit, but in the current budget no such thing is found. He claimed, “The current governed has presented a fake budget in parliament house.”
He said that there had also been a constitutional violation for the first time in the House, as in accordance with Article 73 of the Constitution of Pakistan, the Finance Minister reads out from budgetary documents, including pink books, Economic Survey, which was not the case.
He contended that the government said that there was surge in industrial production, whereas only last week, electricity had become costlier by Rs3.5 per unit and in such a situation, how could there be an increase in industrial production.
Regarding the last-minute PPP decision to attend the budget session, Omar Ayub Khan said that the PPP had stabbed in the back of the rulers.
The National Assembly of Pakistan would now meet again in the afternoon of June 20 to start the budget debate which would continue till June 25. The House is likely to approve the budget on June 28
