LAHORE: Speaker Punjab Assembly Chaudhry Perviaz Elahi has summoned the 41st session of the House. The session will be held today (Thursday).
The Punjab Assembly session will be held at 10:30am. Speaker Perviaz Elahi will preside over the session. The Assembly Secretariat has issued a notification for the session.
Five new lawmakers of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), who had been notified by the Election Commission of Pakistan on reserved seats, will take oath during the Punjab Assembly session.
The ECP on Wednesday had issued notifications for five reserved seats of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in the Punjab Assembly following the Lahore High Court verdict.
Read more: ECP notifies 5 PTI MPAs on reserved seats in Punjab Assembly
The ECP had issued notifications for the PTI’s lawmakers Batool Zain Janjua, Saira Raza, Fouzia Abbas Naseem on the vacant seats for women and Habkook Rafiq and Samuel Yaqoob were notified as the lawmakers on the minority seats.
It is pertinent to mention that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on May 26 de-seated 25 dissident MPAs of the PTI who had voted for PML-N’s Hamza Shehbaz in the election for Punjab chief minister, stating that they had defected from the party.
