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Chaos in Punjab Assembly continued for the second day while opposition and treasury benches used harsh sentences against each other, reported Dunya News. The session started one hour late under the chair of speaker Rana Muhammad Iqbal. Opposition leaders demanded that they should be given a chance to speak on Point of Order. They maintained that an hour was wasted on self-praising speech of a minister and opposition wasnt given an opportunity to speak. Opposition demanded that all the unparliamentarily words used during yesterdays proceeding must be eliminated from the record and membership of such members be cancelled who use unparliamentarily word again. Opposition shouted slogans of go minister go when Law Minister Rana Sanaullah entered the house. Treasury benches also raised slogans in response to the opposition slogans. Law Minister on the other hand said that thief and robbers should be given a chance to speak and he would answer to them. Opposition leaders got more volatile on this statement and demanded an apology on it. They said that law minister should be kept out of house unless he learns manners. Addressing the House Sanaullah said that he had brought evidence with him. Showing documents of a lands registry he said that documents clearly showed that Moonis Elahi son of Pervaiz Elahi bought this land worth Rs 375 million. He announced to resign if the evidences were found incorrect. Background In PA session yesterday, Sanaullah had said that thousands of acre government owned land was acquired by Chaudhry Pervez Elahi and his family during his tenure and not a single penny was paid for that. He claimed that Rs 11 billion of robbery occurred in Punjab Bank during last governments tenure. Haris Steel Mills Director and Himesh Khan gave statements that Moonis Elahi received Rs 5.5 billion. On oppositions demand, he had announced to present the evidences in the house.
