The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is set to nominate the caretaker chief minister of Punjab today (Sunday) after the parliamentary committee comprising three members each from both the PTI-PML-Q and the opposition failed to reach a consensus on the name of the interim CM.
Sardar Ahmad Nawaz Sukhera and Naveed Akram Cheema were suggested by the PTI and PML-Q from government side, while Syed Mohsin Raza Naqvi and Ahad Khan Cheema were put out by the opposition.
Earlier, the parliamentary committee comprising Muhammad Basharat Raja, Mian Aslam Iqbal, and Hashim Jawan Bakht and the opposition side comprising Malik Ahmed Khan, Hasan Murtaza and Malik Nadeem Kamran met at the Punjab Assembly but failed to reach a consensus on a single name.
Talking to the media after the meeting, PTI leader Raja Basharat said that the ECP will decide on the name of the caretaker Punjab CM.
He said the names given by their side were much better than those proposed by the opposition.
