LAHORE: It was an embarrassing day for the Punjab Assembly; of the 10 resolutions, which it adopted on Tuesday, at least were two `illogical,` as some members of the House put them and asked the chair to review them.

The Speaker, however, hardly listened to those objecting to the resolutions, and both were included in the final tally of 10, which coveredhealth, disaster management, governance and transport.

The assembly, which started its proceeding 52 minutes behind the scheduled time, met for little over two hours.

The two resolutions, which caused some embarrassing moments, were by one treasury and one opposition member.

Nighat Sheikh of the Treasury demanded in her resolution that the government ensure vaccine against diseases caused by polluted water in the province. The House unanimously adopted the resolution before Malik Aslam Iqbal of the PTI stood to ask whether such vaccines, which protects against a host of dis-eases starting from a range of gastro problems to all kinds of hepatitis were available in the market.

The Speaker, however, ruled out the objection on technical grounds, saying `the resolution would only be operative if such a vaccination is available, or he should have pointed it out before the adoption of the resolution`.

The second one came from Waseem Akhter of the opposition, which asked municipal, union and district councils to spend three percent of their income on libraries and rules and regulations should be framed to rule the services of those working in those libraries.

Malik Muhammad Ahmed Khanof the Opposition, however, opposed the resolution, wondering how a legislative body (Punjab Assembly) could recommend legislative agenda for itself. The Punjab Assembly should legislate, and not adopt a resolution, for framing rules, he said. `Who else is to legislate rules if not the Punjab Assembly? The resolution is an awkward piece of recommendation,` he insisted. The situation, however, was saved by the government when it requested the chair to defer the resolution, and the chair obliged.

Earlier, the House, in a unanimous resolution, sympathised with the family of those six children who diedin ahouse fire late on Saturday.

The House asked the government to quickly conclude the inquiry, fix the responsibility, punish those responsible and furnish report in the House.

Sheikh Allauddin of the Treasury said that traffic police in the province had gone berserk; instead of regulating traffic, it was riveted on ticking the people rumors have it that it was busy achieving a target of Rs4 billion. In the cities, where one cannot driveat more than 30 kilometers, why fastening seat belt has become such a big issue? It is, in fact, an attempt to fleece people, he said.

He was, however, ignored both by the chair and the provincial law minister. `If it is law, it has to be obeyed and implemented and the violators would be punished, both financially and administratively, asserted the minister and the chair put its weight behind the minister.

The House witnessed a little heat when Mehmoodur Rashid stood up and raised the issue of teachers, who have been up in the arms for the last few weeks, and asked theTreasury to listen to them and address their grievances. `I spent a whole night with the protesting teachers on The Mall, but the government does not seem to be listening to them, as it is not lending ears to doctors, clerks, labourers and even blinds,` he said.

`It is a unique example of bad governance, rather than good one as claimed by the government.

His vigil in the protest camp irked Sheikh Ijaz of the Treasury, who blamed the opposition leader that politics of protest was the way of the PTI.

`Every place, where some kindof protest or subversive activity is going on, the PTI is essential part of it,` he said and touched raw nerves of the opposition members, who stood up to chant `go-Nawazgo,` only to be responded with `go-Imran-go` by the Treasury and it took next five minutes for the House to settle back to business.

The House, as always, started 52 minutes behind the schedule with 31 members at the start and 42 at the time of adjournment at around 1pm, when it completed the business and stood up to meet at 10am Wednesday morning.