{"id":65199,"date":"2024-02-27T22:32:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T22:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/pti-to-call-parallel-punjab-assembly-session-to-elect-cm-speaker\/"},"modified":"2024-02-27T22:32:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T22:32:05","slug":"pti-to-call-parallel-punjab-assembly-session-to-elect-cm-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/pti-to-call-parallel-punjab-assembly-session-to-elect-cm-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"PTI to call \u2018parallel\u2019 Punjab Assembly session to elect CM, speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>LAHORE: The PTI has decided to call a Punjab Assembly session to elect its chief minister, speaker and deputy speaker after claiming a strength of 250 members, including reserved seats for women and minorities.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the party\u2019s central leader, Shaukat Basra, said that PTI members who have won as per Form-45 will attend the session.<\/p>\n<p>He was addressing a press conference, along with other PTI-backed candidates who contested the election for Punjab Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>The candidate held copies of their Forms-45 as Mr Basra told the presser at a marquee in DHA Phase-V that more than half of the elected Punjab Assembly members, including the newly elected chief minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif, were in the house on \u201ca stolen mandate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed Ms Sharif was defeated by a PTI-backed candidate, Mehr Sharafat, in Lahore\u2019s PP-159 constituency.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"blockquote-level-1\">\n<p>Party says democratic norms \u2018trampled\u2019 to elect Maryam to top slot in Punjab<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to ECP\u2019s results, Ms Sharif secured 23,598 votes, while Mr Sharafat trailed with 21,491 votes.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1815901\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The new Punjab chief minister \u201cwon the election on February 9 instead of Feb\u00adruary 8\u201d, said Mr Basra while claiming that results were rigged to ensure her victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPML-N leaders used to say they struck a deal with powers that be, but they failed to strike a deal with the people of Pakistan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis rigged election will result in anarchy,\u201d Mr Basra observed, adding that the establishment was still requesting PTI foun\u00adder Imran Khan to become prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut Mr Khan is determined that the establishment should ensure the mandate given by the people of Pakistan to PTI-backed candidates be returned,\u201d Mr Basra claimed and demanded his party founder be released from jail.<\/p>\n<p>Another PTI leader, Naeem Haider Panjotha, claimed he was winning the election in PP-71 in Sargodha with a massive lead, but eventually he was declared defeated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe submitted applications against rigging, but those applications were rejected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A PTI-backed candidate, Rooba Umer, said she contested the election on Mr Khan\u2019s suggestion and claimed that her whole family was being victimised due to this. She vowed to \u201ccontinue standing\u201d with the PTI and Mr Khan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018All democratic norms trampled\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Separately, the party has criticised the election of Ms Sharif as the chief minister of Punjab and said all democratic and constitutional norms were trampled to elect her.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the party\u2019s spokesperson claimed that police \u201cimposed a curfew\u201d outside the assembly to prevent PTI\u2019s members and the nominee for chief minister from entering the assembly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe family, which has been looting the country and the nation ruthlessly for years and made properties abroad, has been given the reins in Punjab to once again start the spree of loot and plunder of nati\u00adonal resources,\u201d the spokesperson alleged.<\/p>\n<p>The statement claimed that after \u201cstealing the public mandate\u201d, the sanctity of the Punjab Assembly was violated to bring a \u201cdefeated woman\u201d to power.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Sharif had \u201cno political status except being the daughter of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaryam Nawaz could not even secure her own seat despite the state\u2019s repression and rigging, and she should be ashamed of becoming the chief minister against the will of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said the people of Punjab \u201cwould not tolerate an insult to their mandate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The PTI warned the \u201cunconstitutional\u201d government set up after the \u201cele\u00adction fra\u00adud\u201d would soon collapse under its own weight.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ikram Junaidi in Islamabad also contributed to this report<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Published in Dawn, February 27th, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The PTI has decided to call a Punjab Assembly session to elect its chief minister, speaker and deputy speaker after claiming a strength of 250 members, including reserved seats for women and minorities. On Monday, the party\u2019s central leader, Shaukat Basra, said that PTI members who have won as per Form-45 will attend the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2024\/02\/2707203438af1a4.jpg?r=072043","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}