Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) have said that they will oppose the bill requesting to increase the salaries of lawmakers.
PTI Senator Faisal Javed said that senators from his party will oppose the bill as Prime Minister Imran Khan has instructed them to not spend extravagantly from the national kitty.
The senator shared that the prime minister and his party are focused on providing relief to the masses, especially the poor. He added that the representatives of the people should follow PM Imran’s example who initiated austerity from himself.
Turi, who was elected as an independent candidate and was appointed as the ruling party’s chief whip in the Senate last year, was supposed to table the bill in the Senate tomorrow.
He added that they would consult various political parties regarding the bill and if a consensus could not be reached, the proposed bill would be scrapped.
Meanwhile, the National Assembly speaker Asad Qaiser termed the proposed raise in salaries “unreasonable”, adding that the country had “not come out of the economic crisis yet”.
The PPP leader said that it was a time of “great economic crisis” for the country and it was not the right time for lawmakers “to start matching their salaries with the region and others.”
“Public money needs to be spent on public relief right now,” said Rehman.
