MNA Ramesh Kumar suggested lower house provide financial assistance to quake victims by going beyond just a month’s salary
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly expressed team spirit with the sufferers of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria because the decrease house reached a consensus that one month’s income may be donated with the aid of all individuals of the National Assembly (MNAs) to the quake affectees.
Speaking on a point of order all through the Joint Session of Parliament on Tuesday, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MNA Rana Muhammad Qasim Noon proposed to National Assembly (NA) Speaker Raja Pervez Ashraf to donate one month’s earnings of all the individuals of the decrease residence of parliament to the earthquake victims inside the brotherly nations.
Seconding the suggestion of Qasim Noon, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) MNA Chaudhry Mahmood Bashir Virk said the quake-affected humans were dealing with a tough time, consequently the lawmakers should assist them at this hour of trial and tribulations.
“We need to move past one-month salaries and provide massive financial help to the marooned individuals,” says MNA Ramesh Kumar Vankwani.
He went on to say that each one the members of this august residence were nicely off and they could help the noble reason by donating hundreds of thousands of rupees.
Leader of the Opposition inside the National Assembly Raja Riaz Ahmad said it changed into a advantageous move as both the treasury and opposition benches had at the same time agreed to donate their one-month profits to the earthquake sufferers.
Meanwhile, Jamaat-e-Islami’s MNA Abdul Akbar Chitrali, expressing his apprehensions, said he might opt to donate his profits to Al Khidmat Foundation which become already undertaking welfare sports in Turkiye and Syria.
Speaker Raja Pervez Ashraf said the House had reached a consensus to donate one month’s earnings to earthquake victims of Turkiye and Syria.
