03 January 2005	Monday	21 Ziqa'ad 1425

MULTAN, Jan 2: Outspoken opposition member in Punjab Assembly Dr Javed Ahmed Siddiqi urged the governor and the speaker to convene an assembly session as only one meeting of the house had been held in the last six months.

In a press statement issued here on Sunday, Dr Siddiqi said that the provincial assembly had met only once in the month of September which was a matter of disgrace to an elected house.

He said the opposition wanted to raise voice against undemocratic way of governance of the regime ruling the country at present, but they were being muted by not holding session of the house for the last over four months.

He said the opposition also wanted to take the treasury benches to task for meting out step-motherly treatment to southern part of the province. Functions of the civil government had come to a standstill but the rulers were busy in strengthening one-man rule in the country by holding so-called public meetings of the general, he added.