LAHORE, June 1: The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid said on Friday had Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif wanted resolution of energy crisis in Punjab, he wouldn’t have opposed Shujaat’s formula.

At a press conference at the Muslim League House here, PML-Q parliamentary leader Chaudhry Zaheeruddin asked the chief minister why his party did not raise the issue of loadshedding when it was a coalition partner of the PPP for over three years.

He said it was strange on the  part of PML-N leadership to oppose a suggestion (of Shujaat Husain) to resolve the problem.

He said the Punjab government was not serious in holding local body elections. It was trying to hoodwink the court through introducing legislation. He said the government spent billions in four years in the name of development and the actual situation was before everyone. He said the PML-N-led administration had closed its own schemes like sasti roti and food support programme because of corruption and now the fate of laptop, Ashiana and yellow cab schemes would not be different.

Zaheeruddin also dispelled the reports that PML-Q’s Mian Munir, Yousuf Ahad Malik, Haji Imdad, Rehana Jamil and Umer Hayat were quitting the party. They had full confidence in the leadership of Chaudhry Shujaat and Pervaiz Elahi, he said.

Yousuf Ahad Malik said being the president of PML-Q Lahore, the Shahbaz government implicated him in 48 cases. He said the nazims of 80 union councils of Lahore were still with the PML-Q.