The government is changing the middle class into baggers. The long ques of the poor people including women, children and senior citizens can be seen everywhere outside the utility store outlets and distribution points, where they wait for hours, to get the cheap flour, sugar and other kitchen items in the holy month of Ramazan. It looks like that the government is making fun of the people by forcing them to waste their precious time by hours to stand in the long lines to get the affordable edible items.
The government should provide kitchen items at subsidized rates in the open market during the Ramazan to all the segments of the society instead of giving Ramazan packages to a specific proportion of the society.
The people are deprived of special Ramazan packages at large scale despite the allocation of Rs 12 billion from the government. As the earmarked amount is enough for the provision of food items to the entire nation for just one month.
The subsidized flour which is available at utility stores is of substandard quality as the crush of dried bread is added in it similarly the sugar is almost in the powdered form. The major share of the amount would go into the pockets of dishonest high officials of district administration and corrupt parliamentarians of the government party by providing inferior quality of items to the people. Here raises a question, if the government would distribute this amount among the people honestly, then how will the ruler follow their legacy of corruption and how will they enhance their personal foreign bank accounts.
Due to excessive price hike , this year the people are under the burden of inflation as their buying power has been exhausted especially the salaried and working class due to ill policies of the PDM led government which took the affairs of the country after the parliament adopted a no confidence motion against the former PM . The white dressed class of the society is forced to live in very hard situation, because they have left no money after paying their utility bills and transportation charges due to excessive price hike of electricity natural gas and petroleum products , even they cannot afford to continue the education of their children or providing healthcare facilities to the ailing members of their families.
Almost less or more, the same set up came to power after elections which brought devastation to the national economy on the directives of International Monetary Fund and put the poor man’s monthly budget into doldrums during their 16 months tenure.
Now the people have not much expectations from the PML(N) led government as the same prime minister with the same team did not perform well in the recent past. But it is now up to the rulers to ponder about the welfare of the common man instead of their personal well- being for the first time ever as the anger of the people will burst soon if the government fails to give relief to them.