Regional
Election of new CM: Punjab Assembly session postponed till April 16
The next session will elect new provincial chief executive
Lahore: An important session of the Punjab Assembly (PA) to vote for the province's next chief minister was on Tuesday postponed as of April 16.
According to a notification issued by the assembly secretariat, PA Deputy Speaker Sardar Dost Muhammad Mazari moved the assembly session to the rescheduled date at 11:30am.
The session was originally scheduled for Wednesday (tomorrow) at 11:30am after Sunday's session was adjourned without voting to elect the new leader of the house amid ruckus by opposition and government lawmakers.
The provincial assembly had to elect the new leader of the house, with PML-Q's PTI-backed Chaudhry Parvez Elahi and PML-N's Hamza Shehbaz, who had secured the support of the Jahangir Khan Tarin group, expected to go head to head in the race to become the next chief minister.
The election for the new provincial chief secutive will take place after the resignation of Sardar Usman Buzdar was accpected by Prime Minister Imran Khan.
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