Imran Khan, a former prime minister and current leader of the PTI, thanked the country on Twitter for its support of the Supreme Court’s ruling hours after PTI-backed Pervez Elahi was elected as the Chief Minister of Punjab and took the oath of office.
Imran Khan
“I want to express my gratitude to the country for spontaneously showing up last night to support the Supreme Court decision upholding the Constitution and the Law. At 10:00 p.m. tonight, I’ll give a speech to our people outlining our strategy for an independent Pakistan “Imran Khan said on the microblogging platform.
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Following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the decision of Punjab Assembly Deputy Speaker Dost Mohammed Mazari, PTI-backed candidate Pervez Elahi took the oath of office as the province’s new chief minister in the early hours of Wednesday at the Aiwan-e-Sadar.
Elahi, a candidate for the PTI, will take over as the new chief minister of the province after the top court declared Mazari’s decision in the Punjab chief minister election to be “illegal.”
Constitution and law
The Punjab Governor Baligh ur Rehman was initially instructed by the three-member SC bench, which included Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial, Justice Ijazul Ahsan, and Justice Muneeb Akhtar, to swear Elahi in, but he refused to comply. As a result, President Arif Alvi gave the oath.
Elahi left for Islamabad late Tuesday night to take the oath from Alvi in accordance with the Supreme Court’s directive after Governor Punjab refused.
President Alvi, according to reports, sent a special plane to transport Elahi to Islamabad for the oath-taking ceremony.
The process
In an 11-page short order, the Supreme Court stated: “We find that the Deputy Speaker, Provincial Assembly of Punjab, Lahore (Respondent No. 1)’s understanding and application of the said short judgement as well as the provisions of Article 63A(1)(b) of the Constitution were patently incorrect and erroneous and cannot be sustained.”
Elahi was then declared to be the duly elected chief minister of Punjab by the order, which determined that he had received 186 votes to Hamza’s 179.
