ISLAMABAD – A cut-throat competition is expected between PTI’s Asad Qaiserand PPP leader Khurseed Ahmed Shah for the position of National Assembly(NA) Speaker on Wednesday.
Four candidates are in the run for the election of speaker and deputyspeaker of Lower House of the Parliament.
For the slot of deputy speaker, Maulana Asad Mehmood and PTI nominee QasimKhan Suri will face each other.
The name of Khursheed Shah was proposed by Naveed Qamar seconded by ShahidaRamani while the name of Asad Qaiser was proposed by Riaz Fatyana andseconded by Omar Ayub.
After the scrutiny, nomination papers of all the four candidates weredeclared clear.
Shah is being backed by PPP, PML-N, MMA, ANP while Qaiser has the supportof PTI, BAP, BNP and MQM.
The election of the speaker and deputy speaker will be held through secretballoting. In the first phase, the election of the speaker will be held.Soon after the start of the assembly session, the voting process will startand no member will be allowed to take picture of the ballot paper.
The NA secretary will give ballot papers to members of the parliament forvoting. Before election, each contestant will convey names of his twoagents to the speaker.
In the presence of polling agents, counting of the vote will take place andthe speaker will announce the results of the election after the counting iscompleted.
After the result, the outing going speaker will take oath from the newlyelected speaker.
The new speaker by following the whole process will conduct the election ofthe deputy speaker.
Both the candidates Khursheed Shah and Asad Qaiser, after submitting theirnomination papers expressed the hope for their victory and resolve touphold supremacy of the parliament.