Parliamentarians in NWFP Assembly have criticized the NWFP government for not taking measure to control the deficit and said that government failed to adopt any mechanism for controlling the deficit, which they termed as the record shortfall during the last 72 years history of the province. While taking part in the debate on budget parliamentary leader of Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarian (PPPP) and former Speaker Abdul Akbar Khan said that the deficit reflected in the supplementary budget of the province was also record high.