Ruckus erupted in Pakistan’s Punjab Assembly on Saturday as lawmakers from the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) manhandled Deputy Speaker Dost Muhammad Mazari when he arrived to chair the essential session convened to elect the brand new chief minister of the province.
The lawmakers from the ex-prime minister Imran Khan’s occasion attacked Mazari and pulled his hair for altering his loyalty.
TV footage confirmed Mazari being slapped, punched and dragged by the PTI members earlier than the safety guards managed to rescue him.
The PTI lawmakers introduced “lotas” to the home and began chanting “lota, lota” (turncoats) as they lashed out at dissident PTI lawmakers who parted methods with the occasion and determined to assist the Opposition.
They stated they might not enable 24 dissident members of their occasion to solid a vote within the chief minister’s election.
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A tricky competitors is anticipated between the 2 candidates — Hamza Shahbaz and Parvez Elahi. Hamza, the son of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, is the joint candidate of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMl-N) and different coalition events, whereas PML-Q’s Elahi is being backed by the PTI.
If the insurgent PTI members are allowed to solid their vote, Hamza is for certain to get elected because the chief minister.
As the state of affairs acquired uncontrolled, the police deployed outdoors the meeting entered the House.
Elahi and different members protested and termed it a violation of the sanctity of the House.
“In Pakistan’s history, police have never entered the Punjab Assembly. We will summon the Inspector General Police of Punjab and punish him for a month under the law,” he stated.
The proceedings have been suspended for a while at the same time as Mazari stated he would resume the session and conduct the election for the chief minister at any price on Saturday.
“Those who attacked me want martial law in Pakistan but they will not succeed,” Mazari advised reporters.
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The Lahore High Court on Friday had directed the deputy speaker to conduct the election in a free and honest method on Saturday.
A candidate wants 186 votes within the 371-member House to grow to be the chief minister.
In the Punjab Assembly, the PTI has 183 lawmakers, its ally PML-Q has 10. PML-N has 165, the PPP seven, whereas 5 are impartial and one belongs to Rah-i-Haq.
Responding to the criticism for naming his son as Punjab’s chief Minister, Prime Minister Shehbaz stated: “I don’t want to make my son CM. In fact, we had offered this slot to Parvez Elahi but he refused to join hands with us”.
The PML-N had saved 24 PTI dissident members of the Punjab Assembly in a resort for 2 weeks in order that they may not be approached by ex-prime minister Imran Khan and his occasion leaders to woo them again.
Prime Minister Shehbaz has condemned the assault on the Punjab Assembly’s deputy speaker and demanded the sleek election of the brand new chief minister of the province, which has been with out its chief government for 2 weeks.
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