LAHORE, July, 7: Punjab Assembly opposition member Samiullah Khan has said the opposition has secured uplift funds for its constituencies through struggle and not as to the result of any favour.

In a rejoinder to Punjab Law Minister Raja Basharat’s press conference, the MPA said the provincial government was so helpless that its spokesman had to refer to allocation of funds for development schemes in the opposition members’ constituencies as an arguments for being powerful.

He said that advertisements of the National Reconstruction Bureau about union councils and police stations appearing in newspapers were also an undeniable proof of the helplessness of provincial governments.

The treatment meted out to women of the Shahbaz Sharif family, Rana Sanaullah, Khalid Wattoo, Ajasam Sharif, Farza Raja and 27 MPAs, and violence against women political workers spoke volumes for the decency and tolerance of the Punjab chief minister, he said.

Federal Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz, he said, had presented the list of loans of millions of rupees which the Punjab chief minister had got written off decently in the National Assembly on June 14.

The chief minister was getting his loans written off, but the people unable to pay property tax of Rs1,200 or loans of Rs100,000 to Rs200,000 were being arrested, he added.