Islamabad:The central organization Tajran Pakistan has announced a nationwide protest on August 29 against inflation, increase in electricity and petroleum product prices.
Muhammad Kashif Chaudhry, President of the Central Organization of Trade Unions of Pakistan, along with other leaders, announced a nationwide protest day from Karachi to Khyber against inflation, the cruel increase in the prices of electricity and petroleum products on August 29 during a press conference. has made the Pakistani nation and business community seriously mentally ill.
He said that in spite of the protests, if they do not reach the ears of the rulers, they will do a nationwide wheel jam and shutterdown on September 2 and force the rulers to withdraw the cruel increase in the prices of petroleum products and electricity immediately and in the mill of inflation. Take steps to provide relief to the beleaguered nation.
Kashif Chaudhry said that those who came to monitor the people have broken the mountains of oppression on the people instead of monitoring. To get the people out of the mire of inflation, he also demands the Army Chief General Asim Munir to sit together with all the stakeholders. Public policies should be arranged.
He said that as long as the so-called economic aristocracy continues to be imposed on the country, then the country’s economy will continue to suffer and until elected public representatives or expert industrialists or businessmen are appointed as finance ministers, then the economy will go in the right direction. But will not proceed.
Muhammad Kashif Chaudhry said that inflation has ruined the life of the common people, people have been forced to kill their children and are ready to sell their kidneys, the storm of inflation has become severe on electricity bills. And the people have come out on the streets for their rights.
He said that the rulers should understand that water has passed under the bridge but still the elite and the bureaucracy are not ready to give up the VIP culture, thousands of liters of free petrol and more than 150,000 cars of the elite are still there. Flowing on the highways.
Kashif Chaudhry said that free electricity is being provided to 180,000 people, more than 31 crore free electricity units are being given and more than 5 and a half billion rupees of free electricity is collected from the public. Why these free electricity and petrol are being given, why are they not stopped?
He said that 13 types of taxes have been imposed in electricity bills and strange dramas have been imposed in it, the sword of FBR is also raised on the common people and it does not collect taxes from the mafia and elites and on the common man. is loaded.
He said that after a nationwide consultation, we have decided to celebrate a protest day in the entire country from Karachi to Khyber on Tuesday, August 29, and even after this protest, if it does not fall on the ears of the rulers, we will belong to all schools of thought. People including civil society, transporters, lawyers, farmers, students, journalists will do a nationwide wheel jam and shutter down on September 2 from Karachi to Khyber.
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