Karachi: Senior chief of the Pakistan Peoples Social gathering Syed Owais Shah was on Sunday elected because the Speaker of the Sindh province Meeting whereas the celebration’s Christian face Anthony Naveed was elected as his deputy, changing into the primary non-Muslim deputy speaker within the nation’s historical past.
Outgoing speaker Agha Siraj Durrani stated a complete of 147 votes had been solid for the put up of speaker, of which Shah acquired 111. His opponent and Muttahida Qaumi Motion (Pakistan) chief Sofia Shah received 36 votes, Daybreak newspaper reported.
9 unbiased members of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and one member of the Jamaat-e-Islami didn’t take part within the voting and boycotted the election.
PPP chief and outstanding Christian rights activist Anthony Naveed was elected because the deputy speaker of the provincial meeting, changing into the primary non-Muslim deputy speaker within the historical past of Pakistan. Naveed secured 111 votes whereas MQM-P’s Rashid Khan received 36 votes.
Following the win, Naveed took his oath in Urdu after which went as much as the speaker’s dais to embrace Speaker Shah.
On Sunday, 9 PTI-backed unbiased members of the Sindh Meeting additionally took the oath, leading to a complete of 157 members taking the oath. Jamaat-e-Islami’s member Muhammad Farooq additionally took the oath, whereas 3 members of the Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) had been absent.
With 114 members, the PPP is the most important celebration within the Sindh Meeting, and MQM-P is the second-largest celebration with 36 seats. The GDA has 3 members, Jamaat-e-Islami has 1, and there are 9 unbiased members.
On Saturday, a number of new and younger faces, who had gained the latest common election in Sindh, had been sworn in as lawmakers of the Sindh Meeting.
Many members, being first-time lawmakers with no earlier parliamentary expertise, took their oath within the session chaired by outgoing Speaker Durrani, expressing hope to result in change.
A number of come from dynastic politics with feudal backgrounds, whereas just a few belong to the center class.
Newly-elected Speaker Shah later stated that the election for the workplace of chief minister might be held on Monday at 2 pm.
He stated nomination papers might be obtained between 2 pm and three pm on Sunday. Scrutiny of the papers underneath Rule 19 will happen at 6 pm.
“A candidate could withdraw his candidature at any time earlier than the graduation of the election by submitting an software in writing underneath his hand to the speaker,” the speaker added.
