Rumpus in Senate as PPP member uses harsh words against Imran.

ISLAMABAD -- The Senate on Monday witnessed rumpus after a member of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) used harsh words against Prime Minister Imran Khan for his `failure` to implement the manifesto of the Pakistan Tehreelei-Insaf.

Bahramand Tangi of the PPP used words like `incompetent`, `selected` and `thief` for Imran Khan, prompting the treasury members to risein their seats in protest. Members from the opposition also protested in support of Mr Tangi.

Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani asked both sides not to vitiate the atmosphere of the house and expunged remarks against the prime minister.

Leader of the House Dr Shahzad Waseem said that nobody in the house would be allowed to make a false statement in the name of budget speech.

He said: `It is the people who will decide which party has implemented its manifesto or not.

Mr Waseem reminded the PPP of its slogan of `roti, kapra aur makan` and said that it couldn`t be fulfilled while generations got ruined. Hesaid that Larkana, the home constituency of the Bhutto family, was still poverty-stricken.

He said Prime Minister Khan recently distributed Rs2.2 billion among 125,000 poor families of Larkana. `PM distributed this money in the area where the PPP has been in power for more than two decades,` he added.

Earlier, during his budget speech, Mr Tangi said that when he was in the opposition Imran Khan had been making claims to end inflation and unemployment and introduce a uniform education system in the country, address difficulties of overseas Pakistanis, give employment to 10 million people and provide housing to five million people.

He said the prime minister had also beenpromising to bring back looted money worth billions of...

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