LODHRAN: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, addressing a cheques distribution ceremony worth Rs850 million under PM Kisan Package, Friday announced multiple development projects and a grant of Rs2.5 billion for Lodhran district.
The premier said that a university and a campus of Agriculture University will be established in Lodhran while two degree colleges will also start working in the surrounding areas. He also announced to build two new flyovers and a new connecting road from Lodhran to Khanewal.
On the occasion the prime minister also criticised PTI for moving ECP which resulted in partial ban on Kisan Package. He said if such hurdles were not created these cheques would have been distributed long ago. He said that Pakistan will be a prosperous country by the end of 2017 and the electricity of load-shedding will end in 2018.
The premier said that the government has been taking every step for the restoration of peace in Pakistan. “By the end of our tenure Pakistan will be much better country”, he said.
Meanwhile, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Jahangir Tareen has written a letter to Election Commission of Pakistan, alleging that visit of Prime Minister to distribute cheques ahead of NA-154 by-election is a pre-poll rigging.
It is also pertinent to be mentioned here that although the NA-154 seat is due to have a re-polling but ECP had not formally announced an election schedule till the beginning of the ceremony. However ECP announced to hold the by-election on December 23 while the event was underway.
