The winning candidates from Punjab province in Pakistan elections took oath.
Outgoing Speaker Sibtain Khan administered the oath to the newly-elected members of the Punjab Assembly on Friday. Through this oath, the parliamentary politics of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) nominated Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz began.
After a delay of more than two hours on Friday, the session of the Provincial Council began under the chairmanship of Sibtain.
Parliament Secretary said that the Speaker and Deputy Speaker will be elected through secret ballot on Saturday. It has also been informed that the nomination papers of Speaker and Deputy Speaker will be collected and verified today.
This was the first session of the provincial assembly after the general elections in Pakistan on February 8. Where the newly elected members are sworn in. The session was attended by 313 legislators, including 215 from the PML-N and its allied parties. The remaining 98 were members of the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC).
Meanwhile, elected members of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Sunni Ittehad Council continued to raise slogans and shout slogans against each other during the swearing-in. exchange
PTI-backed candidate Imtiaz Sheikh arrived in the assembly hiding in a car wearing black-tinted glasses.
PML-N Malik Ahmed Khan submitted his nomination papers for the post of Speaker of the Punjab Legislative Assembly and Zaheer Iqbal Chunar applied for the post of Deputy Speaker.
Meanwhile, SICs Ahmed Khan Bhachar and Moin Riaz Qureshi have submitted their documents for the two posts.
