Summary The parliamentary committee on Tuesday agreed on Najam Sethi as caretaker chief minister of Punjab.
LAHORE (Dunya News) - A six-member parliamentary committee comprising three members each from PML-N and the opposition side has been discussing four names for the post of caretaker CM for the last couple of days.
Earlier on Tuesday, the third and the final committee meeting had failed to reach a consensus and it was announced that the Election Commission of Pakistan would select the caretaker Punjab CM.
But later Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif directed members of the committee from PML-N to meet opposition members and hold another meeting of the parliamentary committee to reach a consensus on the name of caretaker CM.
Talking to media after the meeting, former Punjab law minster Rana Sanaullah Khan said that the committee had reacheched a consensus on the name of Najam Sethi as caretaker chief minister of Punjab. He expressed the hope that Najam Sethi would perform his duty impartially.
Rana Sanaullah said that PML-N always followed the democratic traditions and strived for the rule of law in the country.
Meanwhile, talking to a private TV channel after his nomination, Najam Sethi said that his first responsibility was to contact the Election Commission of Pakistan. He said that main responsibility of the caretaker government was to hold free and fair elections in the province.
On this occasion, members of the parliamentary committee from PPP and PML-Q criticised PML-N.
They said that the committee has been discussing the issue for last three days and it was decided in the meeting that the final decision would be announced in a joint press conference but Rana Sanaullah left the meeting room and announced the name of the caretaker CM just to grab the headlines.
It is worth mentioning here that the PPP had proposed names of Najam Sethi and Justice (r) Zahid Hussain, while the PML-N had suggested the names of Justice (r) Amir Raza Khan and Khawaja Zaheer, a former bureaucrat as caretaker CM.
