By Staff Reporter
LAHORE: The coalition parties in the Punjab province are all set to challenge the notification of Governor Punjab de-notifying Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Pervaiz Elahi in the early hours of Friday.
Baligh-ur-Rehman issued a notification on late Thursday night to terminate Pervez Elahi as Punjab Chief Minister, turning the political crisis into a constitutional one. Soon after the development, Fawad Chaudhry termed the Governor’s move illegal and announced that the party would challenge the notification in court.
Fawad Chaudhry further announced that a reference would also be sent against the Governor to the President as part of proceedings to remove him from his office.
According to the sources, the decision to challenge the Governor’s notification was taken in a late-night meeting at the residence of Ch. Pervez Elahi. The political crisis has deepened in Punjab with both parties rejecting each other’s stance on the issue. It seems that the matter will finally be decided in a court of law.
Earlier in the day, the PML-N continued saying that Punjab Governor was likely to de-notify Chief Minister of Punjab after he didn’t take a vote of confidence from the punjab assembly on Wednesday. The other side was of the view that there was no legal standing of Governor Punjab’s notification. It may be recalled that earlier, the PML-N, and PPP had also jointly submitted a no-confidence motion against the CM Punjab following former prime minister Imran Khan’s announcement to dissolve the provincial assemblies of Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
