PESHAWAR: The Awami National Party (ANP) has submitted another adjournment motion in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly against high inflation and fuel price hike in the country.
Submitted by Sardar Hussain Babak, Provincial General Secretary and Parliamentary Leader of the party, the motion said that inflation and rising prices have made the lives of the people miserable. “The rising inflation has greater impacts on the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,” the resolution said.
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According to the adjournment motion, the terrorism has severally damaged the trade and industries of the province. In such a situation, said that adjournment motion, the people of the province are facing sever impacts of the rising inflation.
The motion said that the terrorist incidents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, for the last 45, years have severely damaged trade and commerce. “Frequent rise in electricity and oil prices has left the people insecure,” the motion said. ”The people of the province should have first rights over their oil, gas, electricity and other natural resources. The federal government has to stop the unconstitutional control over the national resources of the province.”
The Awami National Party has already submitted an adjournment motion in KP Assembly against the ‘drastic’ increase in electricity bills due to Fuel Price Adjustment (FPA). The motion had also flayed the KP government our closure of factories in the province due to “hefty” taxes.
The adjournment motion has said that marble and other factories in Buner, Swat and other areas have been closed due to the “exorbitant” increase in taxes. “Factory owners and thousands of workers have been forced to protest and thousands of families of factory workers are now jobless,” the adjournment motion had said.
The notice said the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa generates 6500 Megawatt of electricity at a cost of Rs15 paise per unit however; the province has to purchase it from the federal government at much high price. The adjournment motion said that the central government should abide by the constitution and allow provinces to benefit from their natural resources.
