Staff Report
LAHORE: Soon after the opposition political parties submitted a no-confidence motion against Chief Minister Punjab Chaudhry Parvez Elahi in the provincial assembly, Governor Punjab, Balighur Rehman, summoned the assembly session for Wednesday, December 21, 2022.
According to a notice issued by Governor Punjab, the Punjab Assembly session has been summoned for Wednesday, two days before the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan announced to dissolve of the provincial assemblies of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
An accompanying order issued by Governor Balighur Rehman noted that Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi had, in numerous public statements, maintained that he did not wish to dissolve the provincial assemblies.
Punjab Assembly session on Wednesday
Further, Rehman pointed to how Elahi was essentially disgruntled with coalition member Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the most recent manifestation of which were cracks within the ruling alliance in the Punjab Assembly where cabinet member Sardar Hasnain Bahadar Dreshak had resigned after a bitter verbal spat between him and the chief minister during a cabinet meeting on December 16.
“Keeping in view the above facts manifesting serious cracks and evident faults within the ruling coalition in the Punjab Assembly, which already carried only a very narrow numerical margin, I, Muhammad Baligh ur Rehman, Governor of Punjab, am satisfied that Ch. Pervaiz Elahi, Chief Minister of Punjab, does not command the confidence of the majority of the members of the Provincial Assembly,” the notice noted.
“In terms of Article 130(7) of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, I summon a session of the Punjab Assembly to meet at 4pm hours on Wednesday, December 21, 2022, in the chamber and require the chief minister to obtain a vote of confidence on the aforesaid date and time,” the order read.
