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Speaker adjourns Punjab Assembly budget session till 1pm tomorrow
Chaudhry Pervez Elahi says the budget will be presented only if the Chief Secretary and the IGP join the house
Lahore: The Punjab Assembly's budget session for the fiscal year 2022-23 was postponed till 1pm tomorrow.
The budget could not be presented in the assembly on Monday after hours of delay as the Opposition and the treasury benches continued protesting against each other.
The budget session was scheduled to begin at 2pm but started after several hours of delay. Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz was also present.
Once it started, the Opposition benches protested the presence of Punjab government spokesperson Attaullah Tarar in the assembly, as he is not a member.
Speaker Punjab Assembly Chaudhry Pervez Elahi adjourned the session till tomorrow after showing concerns that the Punjab chief secretray and the Punjab police chief didn't appear in the session for apology.
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