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Punjab Assembly to elect new CM tomorrow

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LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly will meet on Sunday to elect a new Leader of the House after Usman Buzdar resigned in favour of PML-Q’s Pervaiz Elahi.

During the session today, the election schedule was issued according to which voting for the chief ministership will be held tomorrow at 3pm.

According to details, the nomination papers for the election can be obtained from the provincial assembly secretariat till 5pm today (Saturday).

On Friday, Governor Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar accepted the resignation of Usman Buzdar.

Earlier, the session today held to announce the election schedule began with a delay of over four hours.

It is pertinent to mention here that PML-N’s Hamza Shahbaz has emerged as a strong candidate to secure the assembly’s confidence after the support of the Jahangir Khan Tareen group following a meeting between the leaders of the two sides in London.

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