Acting Governor of Punjab Chaudhry Parvez Elahi Wednesday said South Punjab was badly ignored by the previous rulers.

According to 24News HD TV Channel, Parvez Elahi said the previous rulers had transferred the allocated funds for South Punjab to Lahore.

He was talking to a delegation of members of the provincial assembly of Punjab who met him at the Punjab Governor’s house here in Lahore.

Elahi said that previous rulers had deprived people of South Punjab of their allocated development funds and transferred them to Lahore.

He said peoples’ welfare projects of his government’s tenure for removing deprivations of people of South Punjab were successfully functioning even now.

He said if Almighty Allah provided an opportunity then he would continue the journey of progress without any discrimination for the people of South Punjab.

Delegation of MPAs hailing from South Punjab included Mohammad Shafiq, Asif Majeed, Raees Nabeel Ahmad whereas GM Sikander and former Member Zillah Council Rahim Yar Khan Naeem Shafiq were also present in the meeting.