Parliamentary leaders confirm opposite augmenting NA seats after census
National Assembly. PHOTO: APP/FILE
Parliamentary leaders of parties represented in a National Assembly (NA) have motionless not to boost a sum series of seats in a reduce residence of Parliament in a assembly called to counsel over a emanate of delimitation of constituencies.
Law apportion Zahid Hamid briefed a assembly over a government’s position on uninformed delimitation and sought recommendations from a parliamentary leaders, Express News reported on Tuesday.
The assembly was attended by Opposition Leader Khursheed Shah and Naveed Qamar of PPP, Ghous Bakhsh Mehar of PML-F, ANP’s Ghulam Ahmed Bilour, Mehmood Khan Achakzai of PkMAP, MQM-P arch Dr Farooq Sattar, Chairman Nadra, Secretary Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and officials of Statistics Division among others.
ECP gives supervision 7 days to rectify Constitution
Speaking to reporters after a meeting, NA Speaker Ayaz Sadiq pronounced that accord was reached over a emanate division of constituencies and all domestic parties have unanimously motionless to list a successive check in a residence on Thursday and Friday.
After removing it authorized from a NA, a check will be tabled in a Senate, he added.
Following a provisional formula of a census, a Constitutional check over delimitation has been prepared and authorized by today’s assembly in suitability with a provincial race ratio.
According to a breeze of a bill, Punjab will remove 7 approach and dual indifferent seats; Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) will get 5 additional seats including one indifferent for minorities and women; dual approach NA seats will be combined to Balochistan’s stream sum of 14 besides one indifferent seat; Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) will get one additional seat; since Sindh will keep a same series of seats.
The NA is now comprised of 342 seats in total, out of that 272 are approach seats. Apart from Punjab’s 148 seats, a reduce residence has 61 seats for Sindh, 35 for K-P, 14 for Balochistan, 12 for a Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), and dual for Islamabad Capital Territory. There are also 60 indirectly inaugurated seats indifferent for women and 10 for non-Muslims.
Today’s assembly was called after a ECP had given a seven-day deadline to a Parliamentary Affairs Ministry to get a Constitution nice to yield authorised cover to uninformed delimitation before a final formula of race census final week.
Punjab might remove 4 NA seats to K-P, Balochistan
The Constitution stipulates that a ECP can revamp a constituencies usually after census information is strictly notified. The new choosing laws contend that a ECP has to finalise a polling intrigue – and delimitations – during slightest 6 months before a ubiquitous elections.
The final delimitation practice was carried out before a 2002 ubiquitous election. In dual successive elections in 2008 and 2013, ‘re-description’ of a constituencies was finished since no race census had taken place compartment then.
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1546076/1-parliamentary-leaders-huddle-decides-increasing-na-seats-census/