On Thursday, Lahore High Court Chief Justice Muhammad Ameer Bhatti will take up the petition of incoming chief minister-elect Hamza Shehbaz, who wants to be sworn in as leader of the country. The petitioner has removed an objection raised by the court registrar.
Wednesday, the LHC’s registrar’s office again objected to Hamza Shehbaz’s petition for his oath-taking, this time for making the governor of Punjab a respondent and not pinning a copy of Usman Buzdar’s resignation to the petition.
The 24NewsHD said that the lawyers for Hamza Shehbaz had worked quickly to remove all objections and set a hearing date for his petition. They were able to achieve their goal because they made the secretary to the governor the person who answered instead of the governor.
CM-elect Hamza Shehbaz filed a complaint in the LHC, and the governor and chief secretary of Punjab were named as defendants, which means that they had to answer the complaint in court.
petition: It said that Usman Buzdar’s resignation was accepted on April 1 and that since then, the Chief Minister’s office has been empty
The petition also said that it was a constitutional convention for the governor to call the elected chief minister and give him the oath of office. It said that breaking these rules was in fact a violation of the Constitution itself.
It also said that there was a constitutional crisis going on in Punjab, which was against parliamentary democracy and the spirit of the Constitution. It said that the governor’s office as a symbol of federation and unity and that the governor’s job was to protect the Constitution.
As written, the governor is not a king and doesn’t have all of the power of one.” Because the governor doesn’t want to take an oath from the petitioner, it’s a political move and a bad idea. It said that the president, the speaker of the assembly, and the governor can’t follow party policies.
People can’t swear an oath, so they have to go to court. The new Chief Minister of Punjab should be sworn in by the governor of Punjab right away, the court said.
