LAHORE: Punjab Assembly is the first among the five assemblies that underwent polls on Feb 8, to convene its opening session today.
Punjab Assembly oath-taking
The newly elected members of the provincial Assembly will take oath today as Governor Muhammad Baligh Ur Rehman has summoned the inaugural session at 10:00am.
Speaker Sibtain Khan will administer the oath to the newly elected members.
A total of 186 members are required to form the government in Punjab.
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Among the newly elected members, Maryam Nawaz will be one of the newcomers stepping into the provincial legislature as an elected member. The PML-N vice-president is nominated as the party’s candidate for the chief minister position following her victory from both national and provincial assembly seats — NA-119 and PP-159, respectively — in the February 8 polls.
If elected, Maryam Nawaz will make history as the first woman to hold the chief minister’s office in Pakistan’s history and will be governing a province with a population exceeding 127 million – more than half of Pakistan’s total population.
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