LAHORE: Senior leader of Pakistan Peoples Party and former federal law minister Dr Babar Awan on Saturday alleged PML-N of organising a rally with the help of nation's money and the Punjab administration, DawnNews reported.

Addressing a Women Workers Convention, organised by PPP Women Wing Lahore, he said PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif should tell the name of the person with whom he was shy in having a meeting in Lahore and secretly met in a hotel in Turkey, otherwise, the PPP would expose his secret meetings.

He alleged that the Punjab government had given contract for preparation of students results' to a relative of a local PML-N leader, who manipulated results due to which students had to take to the streets.

The PPP leader further said that Punjab had become a police state and about 160 students had been arrested in Gujranwala, while many others were arrested in Multan, Bahawalpur and Rahim Yar Khan.

He alleged that the Punjab government had wasted more than Rs 40 billion in “Sasti Roti Scheme,” adding the nation would recover every penny from PML-N leadership.

He said people of the province were protesting against activities of the PML-N leadership but its chief (Nawaz Sharif) was out of the country on a world tour.