LAHORE: Chaudhry Sarwar has resigned as Punjab governor because he wielded no power and was helpless in the face of “exclusive governance” style of Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, says PPP central Punjab president Manzoor Wattoo.

“Mr Sarwar had been pressing the PML-N government to hold local government polls, provide education to 23 million out-of-school children and arrange supply of clean drinking water but it remained unmoved,” Mr Wattoo said.

He said Mr Sarwar rightly pointed out the failure of diplomacy behind US president’s two India visits and none to Pakistan despite the country being a victim of terrorism.

He said the PML-N leadership’s claims of controlling power loadshedding “in months” sounded like a joke because the situation had gone from bad to worse instead of improving.

Published in Dawn, January 30th, 2015

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