PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly Speaker Babar Saleem Swati filed a review case in the Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Monday, the eve of the Senate elections, regarding the court’s directive to administer the oath to the legislators elected to reserved seats.
Speaker Swati’s writ petition, filed through Attorney Ali Azim Afridi, emphasizes that he did not receive any request from anyone asking him to call the session.
The request cites the court’s ruling in the Baldive Kumar case to argue that “the elected person has to be administered oath before the provincial assembly within the meaning of Article 65 of the Constitution, which is only possible when an assembly session is summoned or requisitioned.”
Speaking about the matter, KP Assembly Speaker Swati stated that, contrary to what he had previously declared this month in response to the opposition’s request, the governor does not have the right to call a session. He received this advice from his legal team and department.
He declared, “We believe in the rule of law,” to the Peshawar media.
Regarding the impending Senate elections, which are scheduled for tomorrow, April 2, Swati stated that the assembly secretariat has completed the arrangements for Tuesday’s elections, in which the assembly hall will serve as the polling place.
