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Opposition MPAs to hold demonstration today

Posted on: Sat October 15, 2011

LAHORE,PPP and PML-Q MPAs will hold a demonstration outside the Chief Minister`s Secretariat on The Mall on Saturday (today) to protest against PML-N government`s "inadequate measures to control dengue".

Punjab Assembly Opposition Leader Raja Riaz will lead the demonstration. PPP`s Shaukat Basra told Dawn that the opposition wanted to discuss the issue in the assembly but the PML-N managed to get the session prorogued.

He said now the opposition would raise the issue on roads and expose the government`s inefficiency in controlling the disease that caused a number of deaths in the province.

Responding, Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said the Punjab government would welcome the sit-in.

"We will offer refreshments to those opposition members holding the sit-in," he said while talking to reporters outside the Punjab Assembly building, reports APP.

He said that the opposition was holding the sit-in in response to the PML-N protest outside the presidency which obviously was against loadshedding.

About Shahbaz Taseer`s abduction case, the minister said there was some positive developments which might help resolve the case.

Courtesy: Dawn