Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candidate Maryam Nawaz was elected as the first-ever female chief Minister (CM) of Punjab after the opposition boycotted voting during the Punjab Assembly session on Monday.
Newly elected Speaker PA Malik Muhammad Ahmad Khan announced the voting results according to which PML-N’s Maryam Nawaz was declared Chief Minister of Punjab with 220 votes.
SIC candidate Rana Aftab secured not a single vote as the PTI-backed SIC candidate boycotted the CMship poll and walked out of the house in a protest.
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The meeting of the Punjab Assembly is held today under the chairmanship of the newly elected Speaker Malik Muhammad Ahmad Khan.
In her maiden speech, Punjab’s Chief Minister, Maryam Nawaz, thanked God and her supporters at the Punjab Assembly after she won the CMship election.
Newly-elected CM Punjab recalled that despite several challenges and difficulties, her party members and the PML-N never left the ground empty.
“Today, I am upset that the respectable members of the opposition benches are not present here […] I wish they would be a part of the political and democratic process,” she said.
“If the opposition was present today, and if they had protested during my speech, I would have been happy,” she added.
