KARACHI: The opposition in the Sindh Assembly also took a strong exception to the decision of Speaker Agha Siraj Khan Durrani to reschedule the opposition-requisitioned session of the provincial assembly from 20th May to 3rd June, 2020.
Tehreek-e-Insaf’s Firdous Shamim Naqvi strongly criticised the Speaker Durrani’s action of adjourning the requisition session as against the rules and regulations of the assembly. He said that the speaker is under obligation of law to convene the session of the assembly within 14 days of the submission of the requisition.
“It seems that Agha Siraj Durrani is not the speaker of Sindh Assembly, rather he is the speaker only of Peoples Party,” said the opposition leader.
MPA of Grand Democratic Alliance Barrister Hasnain Mirza said that the Sindh government should not shy away from holding the session of the Sindh Assembly if in case it thought it had performed better during the corona emergency. He said that the Sindh government was in fact afraid of lawmakers on the treasury benches in the house.
The parliamentary party leader of PTI in the house, Haleem Adil Shaikh also lamented that opportunity was being denied to the elected representatives of people to raise genuine issues of the masses in the assembly. He said that earlier the sessions of the assembly were unduly convened to issue production orders of the incarcerated leaders of the ruling PPP facing corruption charges.
