PTI-backed Sunni Ittehad Council members MPAs have walked out of the Punjab Assembly ahead of the chief minister’s election on Monday.
The 103-member boycotted the voting when Punjab Assembly Speaker Malik Ahmed Khan was giving election instructions, who had mandated the ringing of bells for five minutes.
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The start of the Punjab Assembly elections was delayed and the members of the Sunni Ittehad Council walked out of the House after being prevented from speaking.
A few moments earlier, House Speaker Malik Ahmad Khan declared that the proceedings for today would not permit members to express their views, as the agenda included the election of a new chief minister.
When the SIC legislators walked out of the assembly. The assembly with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) senior vice-president Maryam Nawaz at the start of the session today is going to elect a new chief minister, who is most likely to be the CM as his party has a majority in the provincial assembly after the general elections on February 8.
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