SADIQABAD
PPP Punjab leader Rana Tariq Mehmood said that the PML-N government had completely failed to provide relief for the masses as in the federal and Punjab budgets, the governments have levied further taxes on the people and dropped a new bomb of price hike on them.
However, he added, the industrialists had been facilitated in the budget. Talking to the media, he said that the government remained failed from the day one it assumed the charge, and that the people would not tolerate such rulers for long time. He said that that the PML-N leaders during their electioneering and in the budget had promised to provide relief for the people but they had reneged on the pledge.
He regretted tha the federal and Punjab governments increased government employees’ salaries by only 10 percent and even that was after protests while the Sindh and Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa governments raised their employees; salaries by 15 percent.
He said that the government should increase the salaries in accordance with the price hike ratio. He demanded that the government should decrease the burden of taxes on the people and withdraw taxes on the petroleum products.
He said that because of the new taxes, a flood of inflation had hit the country, making the poor’s lives miserable. If the rulers did not announce immediate relief, he feared, the people would take to the streets.