LAHORE: While calling the election of Hamza Shehbaz as Chief Minister Punjab a bogus, unconstitutional, and controversial election, Pakistan Muslim League Quaid (PML-Q) has decided to challenge it in the court.
The decision came during a meeting of the PML-Q and PTI’s parliamentary parties. Chaudhry Parvez Elahi presided over the meeting.
Addressing the meeting Elahi said that it was a bogus, unconstitutional, and controversial election. He added that they would challenge it after consultation with the law and constitution experts.
He said that the Punjab governor and advocate-general have declared the chief minister polls controversial and, therefore, it cannot be acknowledged till the situation gets clear.
He informed the meeting that the party had summoned a meeting of constitutional experts in which the strategy to challenge the election of the chief minister would be prepared.
“Deputy speaker Dost Mohammad Mazari held the election in the gallery, which has no constitutional value. Anyone with a megaphone can hold polls in the guests’ gallery,” he said.
“They can find a fake governor and take a fake oath the way they held a fake election,” Elahi added.
He said that the courts were attacked in the past and now the Punjab Assembly had been ambushed.
“Whatever happened has never happened in the history of the Punjab Assembly. The police came as if they were raiding robbers,” he added.
He alleged that all of it was supervised by Hamza with the target to push PML-Q and PTI workers out of the assembly.
It may be recalled that Hamza was elected as chief minister of Punjab on Saturday in a ruckus marred session of the Punjab Assembly.
Ahead of the vote, three PTI members of the Punjab Assembly were arrested for attacking Deputy Speaker Dost Mohammad Mazari as the party boycotted the session to elect the new chief minister.
Hamza was elected as the new chief minister with 197 votes. While his rival Pervez Elahi did not receive any votes as his party and PTI had boycotted the polls.
