Punjab Assembly: New Hall of Shame

Punjab Assembly: New Hall of Shame

In what appeared to be a new hall of shame in the Punjab Assembly, where members literally abused each in the worst possible language, and the Speaker was erasing the vituperations.

Following a 20-minute of abusing session, the Speaker of the House left with no option but to suspend the proceedings for 15 minutes to reinstate some sanity to the assemblage.

In quite a stupid move, the members stuck to their egotist stances, picking the fight from where they left it after the sanity break. They even justified their speeches they had uttered against each other.

To make the mater worse, the hue and cry involved Rana Sanaullah, provincial minister for law and parliamentary affairs, who was also leader of the House thanks to the absence of Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif.

Pakistan People’s Party’s Shaukat Basra while speaking on point of order flayed severe criticism to the chief minister for failing to check quality of medicines that have claimed over hundred lives.

He observed, “Even road accidents in the province did not kill as many people in the last one year as dengue and the spurious drugs did. These deaths have earned the chief minister notoriety of Qatal-i-Aala (chief murderer) instead of Khadam-i-Aala (chief servant), as he likes to be called.”

The term touched raw nerves of Rana Sanaullah who stood up to relax his rulers, saying the chief murderer (Qatal-i-Aala) was the same person who had approved $15,000 (Rs1.3 million) for the foreign treatment of his (Basra`s) son.

Rana while losing his temperament observed, “One who gives money to save life should not be tagged chief murderer. Only a shameless person like Shaukat Basra can make such claims.”

Despite interference from the Speaker, the provincial law minister in the next move fired another volley of unprintable abuses on Basra who stood up to respond in same way and the entire house went down into an offensive disorder.

By justifying their own choices of words, the two parties demanded the other to draw back their remarks. Later, the opposition boycotted the proceedings after the two parties refused to withdraw the abuses unconditionally.

Finally, a meeting of the two parties decided that the Chair would decide who firstly stooped below the moral standard after watching the video clips in the next session.

Without any doubt, it was a new hall of shame for politicians who are sitting in the house on tax payers’ money.

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Posted by Faisal Farooq on Feb 1 2012. Filed under Opinion, Pakistan, Politics, Society. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.