LAHORE: Taking the ongoing confrontation
with the
ruling PTI in Punjab to new heights, the
PML-N leadership will
likely resign from the chairmanships and memberships of all
standing committees of the Punjab Assembly.According to sources,
PML-N leadership has summoned a meeting of its Punjab parliamentary party today (Wednesday) at the party secretariat to ratify the decision or not. The final decision about resigning
from standing committees or not would be announced Friday when the Punjab Assembly’s coming session begins.According to sources, one of the main reasons to
resign from chairmanships and membership of the
standing committees was PTI government’s adamant attitude to refuse Punjab Assembly’s Leader of the Opposition Hamza Shahbaz the slot of chairman Public Accounts Committee.Besides, the continuous refusal by the Punjab Assembly speaker to issue production orders for detained
PML-N leaders including Leader of the Opposition Hamza Shahbaz and Kh Salman Rafiq. All political parties including the PTI had already decided in principle that leader of the opposition should be give the slot of PAC. But
PML-N leadership alleges that PTI had gone back on its principled stance when it was in the Opposition. The non-production of Hamza and former minister Salman Rafiq had been the major reason of confrontation between the Treasury and Opposition benches over the last few months.
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