Lahore
Punjab Assembly Speaker Parvez Elahi and former federal minister Moonis Elahi of Pakistan Muslim League (PML-Q), on Wednesday, reviewed the joint strategy meeting to oust CM Hamza Shehbaz with the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf’s Punjab leaders at their residence.
This comes after the Supreme Court of Pakistan released a verdict against Punjab CM Hamza and declared that votes of defecting lawmakers won’t be counted.
In view of this development, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) said it is ready to go for a run-off election for a new chief minister if such a situation arises in light of the SC verdict, Dawn reported.
In a statement to Dawn, PML-N deputy secretary-general Ataullah Tarar said: In case the PTI proves (in the Election Commission of Pakistan) that its parliamentary meeting was held and the lawmakers were advised to vote for Chaudhry Parvez Elahi (the joint PTI-PML-Q candidate for CM), we still have the majority to win the run-off election for the office.
Meanwhile, the former federal minister Fawad Chaudhry of the PTI said that after the SC’s verdict no government existed in Punjab as the provincial politics of Pakistan continue to remain in shambles.
The PTI has decided in principle to file a petition in court to oust Hamza in light of the apex court’s decision, he said, adding that despite losing the votes of ’26 PTI lotas (turncoats)’, the PTI-PML-Q still had a majority in the Punjab Assembly with 173 votes, while the PML-N had 172.
