Deputy Speaker Punjab Assembly, Sardar Dost Muhammad Mazari has summoned the Punjab Assembly session on the 16th of this month at 11:30 am, instead of tomorrow.
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Earlier, the voting process for the election of the new Punjab Chief Minister was scheduled to be held during tomorrow session.
Later, a spokesperson for the PA on Tuesday rejected reports that a notification convening the session of the provincial legislature on April 16 has been withdrawn and it is likely to be summoned tomorrow (Wednesday).
“No decision has been made to convene the PA session tomorrow,” he said, adding that the session will take place on April 16 as per the notification.
Earlier, Hamza Shehbaz accused the ruling alliance of hatching a conspiracy to suspend the assembly membership of PML-N lawmakers on some pretext to win the chief minister’s election.
Leader of the Opposition in Punjab Assembly and chief minister’s candidate Hamza Shehbaz said that Azam Nazeer Tarar informed the Supreme Court today that 40 members of the assembly are being suspended.
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“We had 200 members for the election of the Leader of the House, if Pervaiz Elahi had a majority, he could not leave from the back door,” he said.
