Gujrat:
Pakistan Tehreek-E-Insaf (PTI) Central President and former Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi said on Saturday that Gujrat would not have been immersed in flood water if the PML-N government did not block funds for the drainage system.
He approached the flood victims in Gujrat together with PTI General Salman Salman Akram Raja.
Elahi said his government had secured billions of rupees in funds for Gujrat’s drainage system, adding that if the current government could not use these funds for urban projects, it could not be trusted.
“If PML-N had not stopped the funds for the wastewater projects we had started, Gujrat would not have been submerged today. The real guilty are these people who now come here and speak big.”
Elahi said there were no protective dams that were not built around Gujrat, the city would have been exposed to an even worse situation. He added that Moonis Elahi had completed a 50-CUSEC rainwater pipeline from prison Chowk to Bole Pul by RS400 million in funds, ”he said.
He criticized PML-N’s “crooked policies” and said the current government had built concrete roads over Gujrat’s two major drains, Shah Hussain and Chah Tarang and blocked the rainwater flow.
Elahi said he had implemented Imran Khan’s vision during his term of office as Punjab Chief Minister. He claimed that his rivals had already sifoned half of Gujrat’s funds and was only focused on filling their own pockets, while his party’s focus had always been on serving humanity.
When he spoke to the occasion, Raja said that the people of Punjab – and actually the whole of Pakistan – were grateful for Elahi’s services.
Samaira Elahi, Rasikh Elahi, Omar Dar, Mian Imran Masood, Aamir Saeed Raan, Shaukat Basra, Amjad Pervez Butt, Chaudhry Yousuf Sajjad Channi, Syed Faizul Hassan Shah, Shujaat Nawaz Ajnala, Chaudhry Tanveer Gondal, Chaudhry Chaudhry Rizwan Machhiana and other leaders accompanied Chaudhry Parvez Elahi.
