Chairman Senate Sadiq Sanjrani
Islamabad … News Time
President Dr Arif Alawi appointed United National Movement (MQM) Pakistan Senator Barrister Saif as the Presiding Officer to chair the meeting August 1 on a motion of no-confidence motion against the Chairman and Deputy Chairman Senate. President appointed Barrister Saif as presiding officer, according to a statement from the President’s Office and he will preside over a resolution meeting against the chairman and the deputy chairman. On the recommendation of the Law Ministry, the President called the Senate on August 1 where there will be a vote on the resolution against Chairman Senate Sadiq Sanjrani and Deputy Chairman Senate Saleem Mandviwala.
It is to be remembered that the opposition parties formed a leader committee after the Eid-ul-Fiter decided to oust the chairman senate at a total party conference. Who later submitted a motion of no-confidence motion against Sadiq Sanjrani on July 9? The opposition Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government tried to reverse the motion by the opposition to submit a no-confidence motion against the chairman, but they failed. Govt alliance submits to antitrust motion against Senate Saleem Mandviwala, deputy chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) after that, for the first time in Senate history, the situation came to the fore that a no-confidence motion was filed against both the chairman and the deputy chairman.
After a no-confidence motion was gathered against the Senate chairman and the deputy chairman, the question arose as to who would preside over the meeting. However, the President has appointed Barrister Safe as a Presiding Officer, using powers. Opposition members in the Senate July 9 submit a motion of dissent against Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani in the upper house and demanded that Sadiq Sanjrani be removed under Rule 12, which was included in the Senate’s Rules of Procedure (removing the chairman or deputy chairman). However, after the resolution, Chairman Senate Sadiq Sanjrani had said that he would not voluntarily step down. On July 11, the Leader of the Opposition unanimously nominated National Party (NP) chief Senator Mir Hasal Khan Bizenjo for the chairman’s Senate. The next day, the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) had also filed a motion against the Deputy Chairman Salim Mandviwala.
