Lahore:
The 26 PTI legislators of the Punjab Assembly, which have been suspended for their disruptive behavior, have not yet taken advantage of the opportunity of an audience provided by the president of the legislature, Malik Muhammad Ahmed Khan.
President Khan, on June 27, suspended these AMPs for having created “disturbances, heckling and singing indecent slogans” during the speech of the chief minister of Punjab, Maryam Nawaz, in Chamber 3 under rule 210 (3) of the rules of procedure, provincial assembly of Punjab, 1997.
The speaker had allowed the legislators to appear in his room and to give an explanation by July 11 (today). Speaking to L’Express PK Press Club, leader of the opposition Malik Ahamd Khan Bhachar, who belongs to the PTI, confirmed that they consulted their legal team on the opportunity of the speaker.
“We will make a decision concerning the speaker’s hearing at a parliamentary meeting that will be held on July 11 (today),” he added.
A reliable source in search of anonymity told L’Express PK Press Club that a majority of PTI AMPs were ready to benefit from this opportunity, place their file before the speaker and ask him if they could be suspended in response to their protest during the CM speech.
President Khan also received references for the disqualification of AMPs under article 63 (2) read with article 113 of the Constitution and it is compulsory for him to decide these references within 30 days.
The president, June 28, also asked for damages from RS2 035,000 from 10 AMPs of the PTI – RS203,550 each – by occurring on their desk and breaking 8 microphones during their demonstration on June 16 when the provincial government presented the budget.
President Khan also ordered that the opposition MPA Hassan Malik (PP-81) remains absent from the assembly until the extension of the current session. He had expressed this order after Hassan Malik launched a speech book on the budget to the Minister of Finance Mian Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman.
On June 24, Khan also judged that “all members, whatever their political affiliation, in order to preserve the decorum, [will] Confirm the dignity of this August assembly and ensure that the parliamentary procedure can continue without disruption “.
He had warned that in the future, he “would take all the measures of the legal framework to maintain order and maintain the dignity of this August house and its members”. He had given this decision in response to the point of order of Bhachar that the protest is a constitutional right.
In order to determine whether the right of protest and freedom of expression is an absolute right of members, the speaker mentioned rule 223 of the procedure.
The head of the opposition strongly condemned these orders. He clearly indicated that the opposition would continue his protest.
