ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MNA Sajid Nawaz has adopted aunique way of protest over the issue of overbilling in KP.
Sajid Khan wore a garland of electricity bills to the National Assemblysession Thursday to protest “overcharging of power consumers”.
During the session, Nawaz said he was wearing bills of Rs20 million. Headded all the bills were the ones on which power consumers have beencharged for more units than they used.
In response to what he called Nawaz’s accusations, Pakistan MuslimLeague-Nawaz MNA Abid Sher Ali said he would wear *kundas*to the assembly,using the local term for hooks used to steal power from electricity lines.
Ali, who is the state minister of power, criticised the PTI MNA’sstatements, saying power theft cannot go on unabashedly. He added thatbills can never be waived off and that the country was not made forelectricity thieves.
The PML-N leader termed Nawaz’s protest a “drama”, to which the assemblymembers from PTI stood at their seats as a sign of protest.
Expressing anger over Ali’s statements, PTI leader Arif Alvi said the wordsof “drama” and “power theft” should be expunged from the proceeding’srecords. To this, the deputy speaker said the word “drama” would be takenback but nothing about power theft would be.