Manzoor Wattoo reminds Shahbaz of ‘power antics’

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PPP Punjab President Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo has invited Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif to jointly set up a camp office close to Minar-i-Pakistan to protest massive loadshedding.

Reminding Shahbaz that he had publicly declared before the May 2013 elections that he would control the loadshedding menace within three to six months otherwise he would change his name.

“Shahbaz should admit his failure and honour his word because loadshedding has gone from bad to worse,” Mr Wattoo said here on Friday.

He said the PML-N government would make people cry this summer because the distribution companies had not purchased the transformers to meet emergency in view of the likely privatisation. “The distribution companies used to purchase transformers in thousands to meet the substantial increase in demand during the summer season as a large number of transfers get damaged due to heavy load,” he said.

Mr Wattoo said the state minister for water and power had failed to check electricity theft which showed his incapability. He pointed out that the government was resorting to over-billing to claim that recovery was going at a satisfactory pace.

These temporary measures would not yield positive results because the crisis situation was bound to surface sooner than later, he said.

Referring to the “mountain of circular debt“, he said it was going up with every passing day because Rs1b loss a day would trigger the crisis to horrendous proportions.