ISLAMABAD (A News) – The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has issued a written order to remove 25 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) dissident members from the Punjab Assembly.
The Election Commission reached a unanimous decision based on the Supreme Court’s interpretation of Article 63A. The ruling runs to 23 pages.
According to the Election Commission’s judgement, members voted for the opposition candidate in the Punjab Chief Minister election.
According to the ECP’s verdict, members believe that voting for an opposing candidate is a serious problem, and that voting for an opposing candidate is the greatest type of party policy fraud. On the question of deviation, the ECP came to the decision that it would not be affected by the problem of condition compliance.
The 25 dissident PTI members who have been de-seated include Raja Sagheer Ahmed, Malik Ghulam Rasool Sangha, Saeed Akbar Khan, Mohammad Ajmal, Abdul Aleem Khan, Nazir Ahmed Chohan, Mohammad Amin Zulqernain, Malik Nauman Langrial, Mohammad Salman, Zawar Hussain Warraich, Nazir Ahmed Khan, Fida Hussain, Zahra Batool, Mohammad Tahir, Aisha Nawaz, Sajida Yousaf, Haroon Imran Gill, Uzma Kardar, Malik Asad Ali, Ijaz Masih, Mohammad Sabtain Raza, Mohsin Atta Khan Khosa, Mian Khalid Mehmood, Mehar Mohammad Aslam and Faisal Hayat.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) accepted the disqualification case against 25 dissident Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) members of the Punjab Assembly earlier today.
Previously, the ECP had reserved its verdict on the disqualification referrals filed against 25 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Punjab MPAs (PTI).
The case’s arguments on the disqualification referral brought to the ECP by Punjab Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi against the PTI’s dissident members were already finished.
During the last session, the lawyers representing the dissident members of the provincial assembly said that the MPAs were uninformed of the parliamentary party’s directives to vote for Pervaiz Elahi for Punjab’s chief minister.
“By taking the defence and claiming they were not aware of parliamentary party directions regarding who to vote for in the election of the chief minister when the entire world and nation knew about it, and the same was being discussed on talk shows and reported in the newspapers, it’s like saying the MPAs were, though awake, yet sleeping all this time,” said PTI counsel Syed Ali Zafar.
The counsel claimed that a meeting of the parliamentary party was held on April 1, and the decision was published the next day in the press, that the chief whip issued notices to all MPAs in the Punjab Assembly on April 2, and another notice was sent on April 4 by PTI General Secretary Asad Umar, that another meeting was held in April, and the same decision was reached, and that a third notice was sent on April 7.