LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) senior leader Fawad Chaudhry said on On Monday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and members of his cabinet will be disqualified. for five years if they fail release funds for upcoming elections in Punjab.
former information minister took on Twitter and said: “According to the Constitution, funds for elections secured directly from the treasury,” adding that “parliament constitutionally dissociated itself from this process.”
This process is called (Direct Charging on consolidated funds) in in this regard, only approval of federal cabinet required” added head of PTI.
Fawad further stated that if “the federal government does not match with Supreme Court (SC) decision and today does not issue funds, prime minister and cabinet members will be disqualified for five years.”
Tweet from former minister acts as a federal government is set take up cause of provision of funds to the election commission of Pakistan (ECP) for holding elections in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) in Parliament today.
decision was made after Prime Minister Shehbaz held a cabinet meeting on weekly holiday (Sunday) per trade with “current political and constitutional crises” in a country.
Supreme Court last spent a week in charge of the federal government provide 21 billion rupees in funds by April 10 to KEC by sending an electoral body submit a report on V issue until April 11th.
The verdict was also said that the SC will issue instructions for authorities concerned in in case of failure to provide funds.
Despite the court order, sources said the federal cabinet instead chose for discussion in Parliament before approving and issuing funds for provincial elections.
crowd also conducted legal consultations and discussed coalition governments strategy in view of verdict of the Supreme Court of April 4 ordering elections in Punjab on May 14.
