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| October 26, 2003 | Sunday | Sha’aban 29, 1424 |
Bias in allocation of funds alleged
MANSEHRA, Oct 25: The leader of opposition in the NWFP Assembly, Shahzada Mohammad Gustasap Khan, has said that Chief Minister Akram Durrani will not be allowed to divert all the resources to his home constituency.
Speaking at a reception at the Mansehra Press Club auditorium on Friday, he said all parts of the NWFP had equal right on its income and resources. However, he alleged, the chief minister’s attitude was discriminatory vis-a-vis allocation of funds for development schemes.
Criticizing the provincial budget for 2003-04, he said no significant allocations had been made to districts in the Annual Development Programme.
Referring to promises the MMA leadership had made during the election campaign to adopt austerity and provide justice to people, he said all those promises had proven false. Elaborating, he said the MMA government had doubled the official expenditure by empowering the non-elected people. Such wastage of official resources had never been witnessed in the province, he claimed.
The opposition leader said the “clergy government” was setting an impression of good governance only by its words and not by deeds as the hapless people had been given no relief so far by them.
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