Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, during a meeting with PML-Q Chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Thursday, stipulated ‘action’ against PML-Q legislator and Minister for Housing Faisal Saleh Hayat, PakistanTimes reported.
The prime minister said that he was being pressurised by his party leadership and members to act against Mr Hayat who petitioned a case in Supreme Court against his own government for corruption and mismanagement in the setting up of Rental Power Projects (RPPs.)
The PM said that the housing minister was free to carry on with the case but not before resigning from his current portfolio.
In 2009, the federal government approved RPPs for generating 2,206MW of electricity to tide over the shortfall. But the project became controversial after Saleh Hayat, a vociferous opponent of the government’s power policy, came up with serious allegations of corruption against former water and power minister Raja Pervez Ashraf.
Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on the other hand, assured prime minister that he would meet and try to convince the housing minister one more time.
The prime minister said that he was being pressurised by his party leadership and members to act against Mr Hayat who petitioned a case in Supreme Court against his own government for corruption and mismanagement in the setting up of Rental Power Projects (RPPs.)
The PM said that the housing minister was free to carry on with the case but not before resigning from his current portfolio.
In 2009, the federal government approved RPPs for generating 2,206MW of electricity to tide over the shortfall. But the project became controversial after Saleh Hayat, a vociferous opponent of the government’s power policy, came up with serious allegations of corruption against former water and power minister Raja Pervez Ashraf.
Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on the other hand, assured prime minister that he would meet and try to convince the housing minister one more time.
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