Poor were punished, rich were rewarded in budget: PPP.

KARACHI -- Sindh Minister for Information, Local Government, Housing and Town Planning, Religious Affairs, Forest and Wildlife Syed Nasir Hussain Shah while commenting on the annual budget 2020-20 said people of the country did not rely on the budget document this year due to habit of the regime to make claims it could not fulfill.

Provincial Minister said that it was now a well-known fact that the economic team of the present Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government was a completely failed team. The provincial information minister said, 'Soon we will see the federal government will be presenting a mini-budget or supplementary budget.' The provincial information minister said that in this budget, instead of giving relief to the working class, farmers and other poor people, relief had been given to the rich class. So the poor were punished and rich were rewarded in buidget.

He said the same International Monetary Fund which Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) considered as a Witch before coming into power, now had become Miss World. Syed Nasir Hussain Shah said that no relief was given in the budget to the common man. The provincial information minister said that a lot of relief and encouragement had been given to all the businessmen who were associated with the construction business, but nothing had been offered to the laborers who were involved in construction work.

He said that in fact the government should have taken care of the workers who were associated with the construction work and who belonged to the poor class, and not the businessmen who were already earning a lot of money. Syed Nasir Hussain questioned what had been reserved in the budget to deal with Covid 19, which could make a difference or make an impact.

The provincial information minister said that the most urgent need at this time was to take maximum steps in the budget to deal with the coronavirus situation. He said that because the federal government was not serious about the coronavirus pandemic before, and was not serious even now, that was why it did not take any significant steps in this regard in the budget as well.

Nasir Shah said, 'Today our cultivator and farmer is very upset to see his crops being destroyed due to the incompetence of this government.' The provincial information minister said that a large part of the economy of the country was based on agriculture, but this 'failed' federal government was not paying due attention to the agriculture. He said that...