ISLAMABAD: Elections for Speaker and Deputy Speaker of National Assembly will be held today after taking oath of newly elected members.
The Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the 16th National Assembly of the country will be elected. The contest for the Speaker of the National Assembly will be between Sardar Ayaz Sadiq of PML-N and Malik Muhammad Amir Dogar of Sunni Ittehad Council.
The National Assembly Secretariat has formulated the procedure for the election of the Speaker and Deputy Speaker according to which the election will be as per the procedure mentioned in the National Assembly Rules 2007.
Earlier, in the opening session of the National Assembly yesterday, the newly elected members took oath after which the meeting was adjourned till 10 am on Friday.
According to the agenda, at the beginning of the opening session, recitation of Holy Quran, Hamad Wasna and National Anthem were read, Speaker National Assembly Raja Pervaiz Ashraf administered oath to the newly elected members.
The nomination papers for the election of the Prime Minister will be collected by 2 pm on Saturday and the scrutiny of the papers will take place at 3 pm.
In the session of the National Assembly held last day, 282 members of the National Assembly took oath and signed the roll of members in which the nominated Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, Deputy Speaker, Asif Zardari, Bilawal Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif, nominated Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Maulana Fazal. Ur Rehman and other members were involved. In the meeting, Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz and League leader Maryam Aurangzeb were also present in the guest gallery.
Independent members protested in the house wearing masks of founder PTI, independent candidates also brought PTI flags in the house. The PTI-supported members stood on the Speaker’s seat and chanted slogans in favor of the founder PTI.
Nomination papers of Speaker and Deputy Speaker
The nomination papers submitted for the post of Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly were approved.
The nomination papers of Sardar Ayaz Sadiq and Malik Muhammad Amir Dogar for the Speaker of the National Assembly were submitted to the Secretary of the National Assembly.
The nomination papers of Syed Ghulam Mustafa Shah and Junaid Akbar for the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly were submitted to the Secretary of the National Assembly.
Parliament House Security
Security has been tightened on the roads leading to the Parliament House. Serena Chowk, Nadra Chowk and D Chowk are closed for entering the red zone while Margalla Road is open for entering the red zone.
A heavy contingent of police and FC is deployed on the roads leading to the red zone, after thorough checking of the vehicles, entry into the red zone was allowed.
