ISLAMABAD – A PTI lawmaker and a member of the security staff were injured when the treasury and opposition lawmakers traded barbs and tossed copies of the budget book at each other during a debate on the budget in the National Assembly on Tuesday.
As PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif, Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, started addressing the session and raised his concerns about the budget unveiled by the Imran Khan-led PTI government for the next fiscal year, PTI legislators raised slogans and blew whistles to interrupt him.
Govt protesting against the opposition in the National Assembly 😀 pic.twitter.com/OY7JYqFcmy
— Murtaza Ali Shah (@MurtazaViews) June 15, 2021
PTI lawmakers were apparently trying to settle score with the the opposition by interrupting Sharif as PML-N lawmakers had created a ruckus in the lower house of the parliament when Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin presented the budget last week.
On Tuesday, the situation aggravated when PTI lawmaker Ali Nawaz Awan was caught hurling abuses at opposition leaders in the presence of his women colleagues. The two sides ended up throwing budget books at each other.
As the two sides were tossing budget books at each other, PTI MNA Maleeka Bokhari, who serves as Parliamentary Secretary for Law and Justice, and a member of the security staff were injured.
یہ ہے بجٹ کی کتاب کی عزت، اور پارلیمان کی توقیر
کل رات سپیکر قومی اسمبلی نے ضابط جاری کیا تھا۔ تو پھر کیسے توقع کی جائے کہ عام شہری قواعد و ضوابط کی پاسداری کریں گے۔ pic.twitter.com/e6OheAcyq2
— Amber Rahim Shamsi (@AmberRShamsi) June 15, 2021
Security officials were trying to pull the lawmakers away when one of them was injured.
Watch — PTI MNA Ali Nawaz Awan caught hurling abuses at opposition lawmakers
