Only four PPP MNAs attend Budget session after Dar meets Bilawal
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The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Wednesday revised its decision to boycott the federal budget 2024-25 session in the National Assembly as the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) managed to convince its major ally.
Deputy Prime Minister Senator Ishaq Dar held multiple meetings with the PPP’s top leaders to convince them to attend the federal budget session which seemingly remained successful.
However, only four PPP MNAs attended the budget as PML-N failed to completely allay the reservations of Its major coalition partner. Bilawal Bhutto left the Parliament House soon after holding a meeting with Dar.
Earlier, the coalition partner of the PML-led federal government, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), has accused the government of not consulting the party over the development budget, reported 24NewsHD TV channel, quoting sources.
The main coalition partner of the government has decided to boycott the budget session.
According to an inside story of the PPP parliamentary party meeting which was held at the Parliament House in Islamabad on Wednesday, in order to take the party into confidence over the budget the details of the contacts with the government were placed before the members of the parliamentary party.
PPP members in the parliamentary party meeting opined that by not taking the the party into confidence over the public sector development programme, the government has dealt a blow to the PPP’s credibility.
The PPP members were of the view that the cooperation between the government and the PPP was the result of an agreement, and the government must abide by that agreement, the sources revealed.
PPP Information Secretary Shazia Marri confirmed the major decision taken by the Bilawal-led party.
She said that PPP lawmakers will not attend the budget session and urged the ruling Nawaz-led party to fulfil the contents of the agreement made with her party.
Marri complained that her party was not consulted on Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) by the PML-N-led federal government.
She added that the party lawmakers expressed serious reservations for not being included in the budget-related consultations by the federal government.