Imran Khan's 11-point Election Agenda Doomed To Fail: Opposition

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Imran Khan's 11-point election agenda doomed to fail: Opposition

Various opposition leaders Monday termed the 11-point election agenda of Pakistan Tahreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan a political gimmick which would doom to fail like his failure in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where the PTI government had completely failed to address people's problems

PESHAWAR,(UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 24th May, 2018 ) :Various opposition leaders Monday termed the 11-point election agenda of Pakistan Tahreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan a political gimmick which would doom to fail like his failure in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where the PTI government had completely failed to address people's problems.

Awami National Party (ANP) Secretary General Mian Iftikhar Hussain talking to APP alleged that the PTI government had ruined almost all the sectors in the province during last five years, leaving a tough job for the successors to put them back on track.

Accusing the PTI of betraying KP people by raising the slogan of "change", the ANP leader said mismanagement was rampant in all departments as the provincial kitty was overburdened by billions of rupees loan taken for the Peshawar Metro Bus project, which would be repaid by the next government.

He said once called the City of Flowers, Peshawar nowadays lay in ruins due to ill-planning of the Metro Bus project causing environmental problems and traffic chaos. Iftikhar said Imran's 11-point agenda was in fact a replica of his last general election programme which had already failed to deliver in KP.

The province had rather been pushed 30 years back, depriving its people of development with rising unemployment, he added. Referring to the agenda point pertaining to corruption, the ANP leader said the PTI had made its own established KP Ehtesab Commission (KPEC) toothless by incorporating many amendments in the law which forced its director general to resign in protest.

There was question mark over PTI's good governance and merit-based policy in recruitment as evident from the notice taken by the NAB chairman about illegal appointments in KPEC, he added. The ANP leader claimed that not a single person had been brought to book by KPEC, thus exposing PTI's claims of across-the- board accountability in the province.

Imran's anti-corruption campaign was exposed when he first ousted the Qaumi Watan Party's ministers on the charges of corruption, who later rejoined the KP cabinet, he added. Iftikhar said KP Chief Minister Pervez Khattak had started appearing before the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in mega corruption scandals such as leasing of 275 acres of Forest Department land in scenic Malam Jabba in Swat and misuse of KP government's helicopter by the PTI chief.

He said the popularity of a politician could not be gauged from big public gatherings, rather it was judged at the polling station.

Imran's show at Minar-e-Pakistan 2013 was much bigger than the present one, but the then general election results were not comparitively favourable for the PTI, he added.

While referring to PTI chief's uniform education and health services' point, Mian Iftikhar said the PTI had failed to implement uniform education system in the province as class-based education system was still in vogue and the people had to pay high fees for getting imparted quality education to their children.

Repeated experiences in health and education departments had ruined the important sectors, due to which the people were suffering, he said, adding not a single new hospital had been constructed in the province.

PML-N's Parliamentary Leader in KP Assembly Sardar Aurganzaib Nalota alleged that Imran could not implement his last election manifesto in the province and questioned how he would implement his 11-point agenda in the entire country.

The PTI government itself could address 90 per cent of the problems which were highlighted by Imran Khan as after the 18th Constitutional Amendment, a number of these subjects had been devolved to the provinces, he maintained.

He alleged that the PTI chief was hiking in Nathia Gali when dengue virus had attacked Peshawar last year and Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif sent teams of medical specialists to treat the affected people.

Referring to Imran Khan's agriculture and environment reforms agenda, the PML-N leader said PTI's one billion trees plantation programme had been exposed as NAB had started investigations into alleged corruption in the project.

He said demonstrations of engineers, teachers, patwaris, nurses and doctors in KP had showed that people were not satisfied with the PTI's performance. Former PPP KP President Rahimdad Khan said how Imran would implement his 11-point agenda across the country in the wake of his failure to implement his election manifesto in KP.

"The KP government was a test case for Imran and he failed to come upto the expectations of the KP people," he added. He said the Chief Justice of Pakistan during his recent visit to Peshawar had expressed dissatisfaction over the performance of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government in the social sectors.

Not a single standard hospital or school had been set up in the provincial capital by the PTI government during the last five years, he added.