The opposition on Friday sent a letter to the Speaker of the National Assembly and to the National Assembly secretary urging them to immediately distribute the notice of no-confidence motion among the house members.
“A no-confidence motion was submitted to the prime minister on March 8,” the letter said. “The rules require the secretary to distribute notices of no-confidence motion among the members of the National Assembly.”
The letter added that the NA secretary had not yet distributed the no-confidence motion whereas the said motion should be on the agenda of the meeting one day after the distribution of the said notice.
“In order to fulfil rule 37 (of the house), the notice should be distributed immediately and entered in the order of the first working day of the session,” the letter concluded.
On March 8, the joint opposition submitted a no-confidence motion against the chief executive of the country – Prime Minister Imran Khan – while pinning its hopes for the success of the motion on the estranged members of the ruling party and its allies.
The submission of the motion was followed by a press conference by the top leadership of the opposition parties, including PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif, JUI-F and PDM chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman and PPP leader Asif Zardari, who said that the days of the prime minister were numbered and that no rhetoric could save him anymore.
At the presser, the top guns of the opposition parties appeared confident that they would succeed in passing the no-trust motion against the premier, saying the opposition would surely bring the members and make sure that it had more than 172 members’ support.
