Pervez Elahi to seek vote of confidence before Jan 11, declares Imran Khan

LAHORE : Dec 25,2022: Pakistan Tehreek- e – Insaf (PTI) chief , Imran Khan , on Sunday said Punjab chief minister , Chaudhary Pervez Elahi, will take vote of confidece prior to January 11.

A Lahore High Court (LHC) bench , which is hearing the case of denotification of Chaudhary Pervez Elahi as chief minister Punjab, has fixed January 11 for hearing of the case again . LHC has issued notices to the parties in the case for January 11.

On the very first hearing , LHC bench had suspended Punjab Governor , Baligh Ur Rehman’s order of December 23 wherein he had denotified Chaudhary Pervez Elahi as chief executive of the province . The court in its order in the case had noted that there was no bar on Chief minister for taking vote of confidence from the assembly .

On the order of the Governor, Baligh Ur Rehman , Chaudhary Pervez Elahi was initially reluctant to take vote of confidence on December 21 and it prompted the Governor to issue another order on December 23 to denotify Chaudhary Pervez Elahi as chief minister Punjab.

Now with a gap of less than a week, PTI and PMLQ seem confident and they are making emergency arrangements to secure vote of confidence for Chaudhary Pervez Elahi.

Imran Khan’s announcement for possible vote of confidece for Chaudhary Pervez Elahi shows the ruling alliance in Punjab is confident to win vote of confidence for Chaudhary Pervez Elahi .

PTI senior leader , Fawad Hussain Chaudhary , also expressed confidence that PTI and PMLQ will win vote of confidence for Chaudhary Pervez Elahi. Speaking to media on Sunday in Lahore, Fawad Hussain Chaudhary claimed that Chaudhary Pervez Elahi will get 187 votes in vote of confidece.

Federal ministers ,however , reject these claims of PTI leaders . They are pretty confident that Chaudhary Pervez Elahi will fail in getting required number of votes whenever he takes vote of confidece from the House. Chaudhary Pervez Elahi will need 186 votes to protect his government in Punjab.

Interior minister, Rana Sanaullah , in his address to the party workers in Faisalabad on Sunday lashed out at Imran Khan. He also claimed that Imran Khan and Pervez Elahi will fail in seeking vote of confidence . Ahsan Iqbal too believes that PMLQ and PTI do not have magic number of 186 to save their government in Punjab.