LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly on Friday demanding a legal and constitutional action against former Pakistani diplomat Wajid Shamsul Hasan unanimously passed a resolution against him.Wajid Shamsul Hasan has come under severe attack by provincial assembly’s lawmakers in the wake of his statement in which he had termed the decision to declare Ahmedi community a minority as a wrong one.The resolution was moved in the house by PML-N member Waheed Gul after consensus with the opposition and special support from Law Minister Rana Sanaullah. Wajid is a former Pakistani high commissioner to the UK and is also being considered a close aide of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari.PPP lawmakers present in the house did not defend Wajid when the resolution was moved against him – rather their parliamentary leader Qazi Ahmad Saeed himself demanded an action against the former diplomat over his statement. The provincial assembly members through the resolution demanded the federal government take action against Wajid for his provocative statement to a local Urdu daily in which he had said that Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto’s decision to award minority status to Ahmedis was actually made under religious parties’ pressure and hence a wrong one. The resolution said that the former diplomat through his statement had hurt the feelings of not only Pakistanis but all also the whole ummah. The resolution further said that the statement was in contempt of the unanimous decision of the then National Assembly, declaring Ahmedis a minority. It added that the house strongly condemns such a statement by Wajid and demands action against him as per the law and constitution.The resolution was unanimously adopted by the house and the mover received congratulations from the treasury and the opposition members, especially from Qazi Ahmad Saeed of PPP, Mian Aslam Iqbal of PTI, and the treasury members including Maulana Ilyas Chinioti and Mehfooz Mashhadi.Earlier, on a point of order, PTI member from Rawalpindi Arif Abbasi raised the issue of Bahria Town by saying that it had become a mafia in the country and was not giving plots to its allottees since 2004 despite payment of installments. On this, Acting Speaker Sardar Sher Ali Gorchani advised him to move an adjournment motion regarding the issue on Monday. During the proceedings of the house, PML-N’s Sheikh Allauddin highlighted the matter of non-payment by sugar mills to farmers. He said that the sugar mills owners were not paying overdue amounts overdue and arrears to sugarcane growers. He informed the house that sugar mills owners had placed advertisements in newspapers demanding the government give them loans to pay their outstanding amounts to farmers. Such an act on their part, he said, was tantamount to blackmailing the government, which is pressurising them to pay arrears to the poor farmers.He further said that PTI’s Jahangir Tareen was also included among the mill owners who were not making due payments to the framers. On this, PTI’s Mian Aslam Iqbal said the government should take blanket action against all those sugar mills who are involved in withholding payments to farmers. After some further heated discussion on the issue by the members, the chair advised the food minister, cane commissioner and other concerned officials to come in the house on Monday and provide details on the matter. He said during the last session the house had been told that all outstanding payments had been made to the farmers by the sugar mills. The issue of Eden Housing also echoed in the house as PTI’s Ahmad Shah Khaga and PML-N’s Mazhar Abbas Raan raised the matter by saying that more than 7,000 people had been victimised by the construction company putting their huge investments at stake. They said that meeting of the parliamentary committee headed by Abdur Rauf Mughal had not been held for more than a year. On the, the chair said that he would talk to the committee chairman on the matter.