LAHORE, April 20: The Tehrik-i-Istiqlal has demanded that the government should fix price of every crop and provide maximum facilities for promoting real investment.

Speaking at the provincial council’s meeting of the party here on Sunday, Tehrik president Rehmat Khan Vardag said being the backbone of the country’s economy, the agriculture sector needed revolutionary steps.

The government should announce support price of each crop before its sowing and ensure procurement of all the produce so that farmers could get real reward of their labour, he added.

He regretted that the government had created such a situation that real issues being faced by the masses had gone in the background and their representatives had been entangled in legal and constitutional complications.

Central chairman and industrialist Qaiser Ahmad Shaikh said to promote real investment industrialists should be facilitated as much as possible.

At least 4,500 big industrial units were lying closed in the country and the government should hand them over to the people capable to run and utilize them for strengthening national economy.

Secretary-general Tassaduq Baloch stressed the need for increasing water reservoirs to meet future needs of farming sector.

Sindh chief Ahmad Dara invited attention of the participants towards deteriorating law and order situation in his province which, he said, had exposed the tall claims of the PML-Q government.

He believed that the situation went from bad to worse because of imposing minority government in the province, ignoring all principles and laws in the government formation process.

Earlier, the council elected Malik Hamid Sarfaraz as its new Punjab chief. Former provincial chief advocate Rana Zahid had resigned after his appointment as the deputy advocate-general.