Reports in the media suggest that Punjab Governor Baleegh-ur-Rehman may dissolve Punjab Assembly today (Jan 14).
PTI leader said on Friday (Jan 13) that President Arif Alvi may ask the premier to take the vote in exercise of his constitutional powers.
He said that Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan had prepared the summary to dissolve the provincial assembly.
Fawad had urged Punjab governor to not wait for the designated time for the dissolution, saying doing so would ‘delay the formation of an interim set up’ in the province.
On Thursday (Jan 12), Fawad said that CM Elahi had signed the summary to dissolve the assembly and it had been sent to the governor.
“The failure to sign the summary would result in an automatic dissolution of the assembly,” he had said.
He had made the remarks after Elahi’s meeting with PTI chief Imran Khan at his Zaman Park residence.
The PTI leader had also said that the party would now write to PML-N’s Hamza Shehbaz to ask him for appointing a caretaker government.
Parvez Elahi won the vote of confidence of the Punjab Assembly to retain his post as the province’s chief minister, on Wednesday [Jan 11].
The vote was taken amid a boycott of the session by the opposition and a ruckus in the House, as both sides engaged in an intense war of words.
The opposition had cast doubts on the transparency of the voting process and announced to approach court against the same.
Both PML-Q, allied with PTI, and arch-rivals PML-N earlier claimed to have the required numbers to win the crucial vote of trust.
On the same day, a five-member bench of the Lahore High Court headed by Justice Abid Aziz Sheikh had urged the chief minister to take a vote of trust to bring the prevailing crisis in the province to an end.
Last month, the Lahore High Court reinstated Parvez Elahi, as the chief minister, and his Cabinet after the assurance by the latter that he won’t advise the dissolution of the assembly without securing the vote of confidence first.
The order was passed after the PML-Q leader gave the guarantee to the court, bringing days of intense wrangling to an end.
What happens after the planned dissolution of the provincial assemblies is still to be seen.