A file photo of Balochistan assembly. PHOTO: NNI/FILE
Eight members of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and 16 Pakistan Muslim League Quaid PML-Q members submitted their resignations and joined hands with the opposition.
Earlier, eight MPAs belonging to Muslim league Nawaz (PML-N) and in total 17 legislators submitted resignations and joined the opposition.
The opposition leader on Sunday had 40 resignations which he submitted to the Balochistan Governor Zulfiqar Ali Magsi to gain the majority.
Later during the day, the governor accepted 17 out of the 40 resignations that reached him.
The resignations started coming in hours after President Asif Ali Zardari and Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani struck a deal to defuse a burgeoning constitutional crisis in the province.
After the meeting Raisani was named as leader of the house and JUI-F’s Maulana Abdul Wasay as leader of the opposition, while Balochistan National Party-Awami’s Ahsan Shah was chosen to be the caretaker chief minister.
The PML-N President Sardar Sanaullah Zehri announced on Saturday that they were in talks with PML-Q leaders and were hopeful of convincing them to resign and become a majority (in opposition).
The Sunday session of the Balochistan assembly was postponed.
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This is itself the mockery of most celebrated 18th ammendement, which is marred by serious lopeholes. In a single and last night all the ministers at once decides to become opposition members to form a caretaker government in collusion with their colleagues in government to fulfill the formality cited in the said ammendement of consitution. Under these circumtances, it is far beyond the reality to presume that the elections would be free, fair and transparent. Rather it is an instrument to sustain the status quo. Nationalist parties who boycotted the previous elections have not been taken into the loop in the whole process. It might result in further alienation and this time it would be fatal for the existance.
Ironic!!