26 dissident members of PTI to be deseated from Punjab Assembly

*LAHORE: 26 dissident Members of the Provincial Assembly (MPAs) of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) are likely to be deseated in Punjab, citing sources. *

Sources said that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will begin its action from May 6 regarding the PTI turncoats, whereas, the no-trust motion against Punjab Assembly’s Speaker Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi is also expected to be failed.

The Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) has faced a new trouble after filing a no-trust motion against the Punjab Assembly’s speaker.

PML-N will now require 186 lawmakers in the Punjab Assembly to make the no-trust motion successful, whereas, the deseating of the PTI turncoats will reduce the PML-N’s numbers to 171.

Earlier in the day, the Election Commission of Pakistan link (ECP) reserved a verdict on the jurisdiction of a disqualification reference against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) dissident Member of the National Assembly (MNA) Noor Alam Khan.