LAHORE – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) nominee Pervaiz Elahi took oath asthe new Punjab Assembly speaker.
Pervaiz Elahi bagged 201 votes while his rival Ch Iqbal Gujjar secured 147votes. Total vote in Punjab Assembly casted 349 and one vote has beenrejected. The outgoing speaker Rana Muhammad Iqbal presided over thesession.
More than 15 votes of Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) were casted insupport of the PTI candidate. The report related to the forward block inthe PML-N has been proved after the counting of votes.
The PML-N candidates secured 147 votes from 162 MPAs, however, more thanten PML-N leaders casted their votes in favour of the Pervaiz Elahi.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has nominated Chaudhry Parvez Elahi as thecoalition’s candidate for post of Speaker Punjab Assembly and Dost MuhammadMazari as Deputy Speaker.
PML (N) has nominated Chaudhry Iqbal Gujjar for post of Speaker andMuhammad Waaris Kallu for Deputy Speaker.