QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal is expected to resign from his post as the political crisis worsens after a no-confidence motion was filed against him in the provincial assembly.
Well placed sources informed that the embattled chief minister will address a press conference at 2:30 PM on Sunday afternoon where he is expected to make the announcement. Jam Kamal had held a meeting with several estranged members of the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) and the allied parties after the decision was made.
In a statement on Twitter, CM Jam Kamal said the “loss in political development will be entirely the responsibility of the PDM, PTI, and BAP,”. He urged Prime Minister Imran Khan to “have a look around his people.”
He said if the disgruntled BAP members and the BAP in the “passion for power and greed” decide to form the goverment, then he is ready to sit in the opposition.
Passion for power and greed!!
Loss in the Provincial development will be entirely the responsibility of PDM, PTI and BAP some sensible and responsible people in the federal, BAP(Naraz group) and few mafias
I would suggest to @ImranKhanPTI to have a look around his people.
— Jam Kamal Khan (@jam_kamal) October 24, 2021
A session of the Balochistan Assembly has been summoned on October 25 (Monday) for voting on the no-confidence motion tabled against Chief Minister Jam Kamal.
A day earlier, Chief Minister Balochistan Jam Kamal had reacted to rumours regarding his resignation and clarified that he hasn’t stepped down from the position. “I have not resigned and such rumours [should] not be spread,” he wrote on Twitter:
Balochistan Governor House spokesperson said Jam Kamal’s resignation has not been received, while spokesperson of the Balochistan government Liaquat Shahwani said that the news about the resignation “is not true”.
READ MORE: CM Balochistan refutes rumours of his resignation
On Friday, Jam Kamal had claimed that out of the 41 members of the Balochistan Assembly, 80 percent stand with him in opposition to the no-confidence motion moved against him two days prior.
He claimed 80% of coalition lawmakers in the provincial assembly including the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) and allied parties support him. It should be recalled that on Wednesday, out of the 65 lawmakers present in the assembly, 33 had backed holding a vote of no confidence against CM.
Of the 65 lawmakers present in the assembly, 33 backed the vote of no confidence against CM Jam Kamal. Several of them had taken refuge at the house of Balochistan Assembly Speaker Quddus Bizenjo.
BAP spokesperson Abdul Rehman Khetran had last week presented the no-confidence motion before the assembly. The estranged lawmaker stated that the chief minister had failed to deliver during his three-year tenure and should be removed immediately.
