LAHORE, Nov 5: People are committing suicides due to poverty while Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif is spending Rs200 million of taxpayers money on his security paraphernalia.

The tirade against the chief minister was launched by four women parliamentarians belonging to the PML-Q here on Wednesday while addressing a press conference.

They said Shahbaz Sharif should go back to Jeddah if

he felt so insecure in Pakistan, adding it was criminal to spend such a huge amount of money in the name of security when poverty was so rampant in the country.

They criticised the government for what they called reneging on its promise to sell all expensive vehicles and deposit money in the provincial exchequer.

Instead, they alleged, corrupt bureaucrats were being rehired and given the task of political victimisation.

Ms Samina Khawar Hayat, one of the four parliamentarians, said deployment of a DIG, three SPs, 12 DSPs and 1,000 constables to ensure security ring around the CM was criminal use of public money.

Majida Zaidi, another participant of press conference, said people needed security and bread, not empty words.

Low-priced `roti’ was a political gimmickry, which was getting exposed by the day, she said, adding neither quality nor quantity of the roti was up to the mark.

The parliamentarians promised to keep raising such issues at all forums because the PPP and PML-N were playing “government-opposition” game and neither was exposing the other.