The Pakistan Muslim League-N’s (PML-N) baffling instructions to lawmakers helped the speaker of the Punjab Meeting keep away from a no-confidence movement pending in opposition to him on Sunday.
On Sunday morning, at 9:30am, a parliamentary assembly of the PML-N was held at 90 Shahrah-e-Quaid-i-Azam in Lahore. Round 197 members of the provincial meeting (MPAs) reached the venue on time, say these within the PML-N who have been aware about the developments.
In the course of the assembly, Hamza Shehbaz, the chief minister of Punjab, and Attaullah Tarar, the deputy secretary-general of PML-N, informed the members that Elahi had referred to as goons from Gujrat to seize the meeting constructing.
Later, Tarar, Muhammad Ahmed, Awais Leghari and Pakistan Peoples Occasion’s (PPP) Murtaza Hassan left for the Punjab meeting to stage a protest.
As time glided by, the confused MPAs ready at 90 Shahrah-e-Quaid-i-Azam started to ask their management when they’ll go to the meeting to vote in opposition to the speaker. No clear reply was given.
Lastly, at round 12:20pm, instructions have been issued to the gathered MPAs to achieve the meeting corridor, together with those that moved the no-confidence movement on April 8.
When the women and men reached the meeting, they have been surprised to search out out that the session had ended and the decision in opposition to the Punjab meeting speaker had been rejected because of the absence of the movers.
A supply throughout the PML-N says that quickly after the session, trolling of the six MPAs, who had initially moved the no-trust transfer in opposition to Elahi, started on social media. Throughout which, PML-N’s MPA Samiullah Khan was referred to as a “traitor” for abandoning his political occasion.
Khan’s spouse and a PML-N chief, Azma Bukhari, tweeted that it was “a pity” and she or he was heartbroken on the allegations of “traitor” in opposition to her husband. She added that when the PML-N requested the MPAs to go to the meeting, they did.
Bukhari additionally shared an image of the decision and requested whether or not the opposite signatories of the no-confidence movement have been additionally “traitors” or was the label solely reserved for her and her husband.
PML-N’s Tarar, Awais Leghari and Malik Ahmed didn’t reply to repeated requests for feedback.
It is very important point out that the identical day the PML-N additionally filed a brand new no-trust movement in opposition to the speaker of the Punjab Meeting.