LAHORE: Punjab Assembly Speaker Parvez Elahi on Friday accepted the resignation submitted by PML-N MPA Faisal Niazi around two months ago.

Faisal Niazi was elected from PP-209, Khanewal, on a PML-N ticket in the 2018 general election after the PTI refused to give him ticket.

He tendered his resignation before the polls for the chief minister on April 16 as he avoided voting for Hamza Shehbaz. But the speaker did not accept his resignation then.

Soon after the acceptance of his resignation, Mr Niazi announced joining the PTI on Friday.

Meanwhile, the speaker has summoned a session of the assembly on Monday, July 18, four days before the re-election to the office of the chief minister on July 22.

Mr Elahi is a joint candidate of the PTI and the PML-Q in the polls against Hamza.

Published in Dawn, July 16th, 2022

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