{"id":43929,"date":"2018-01-13T13:46:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T08:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=43929"},"modified":"2018-01-13T13:46:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T08:46:22","slug":"abdul-quddus-bizenjo-elected-as-new-cm-of-balochistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=43929","title":{"rendered":"Abdul Quddus Bizenjo elected as new CM of Balochistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

QUETTA Jan 13 (TNS):<\/strong> The Balochistan Assembly on Saturday elected Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo the new chief minister of the province, days after former chief minister Sanaullah Zehri stepped down ahead of a no-confidence motion against him.<\/p>\n

Speaker Raheela Hameed Durrani made the official announcement.
\nThe election took place amid beefed up security in and around the assembly building.<\/p>\n

The contest was held between Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid candidate Bizenjo, who secured 41 out of the total 51 votes casted, and Pashtunkhuwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) member Agha Syed Liaqat Ali, who bagged 13 votes.<\/p>\n

Bizenjo is the third chief minister of the province in four-and-a-half years.<\/p>\n

Another PkMap candidate member Abdul Rahim Ziyaratwal, who had also filed his nominations, had withdrawn from the race.<\/p>\n

Following the in-house election, the new leader of the house will take oath of his office at 5 pm.<\/p>\n

Bizenjo, besides his party, had the complete support of disgruntled members of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Fazl).<\/p>\n

Bizenjo was born in Awaran on January 1, 1974, and contested elections for the first time in 2002. He was elected from the PB-41 constituency.<\/p>\n

The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid candidate remained Deputy Speaker from 2013-15.<\/p>\n

Bizenjo was elected as MPA from Awaran after receiving only 544 votes from the constituency.<\/p>\n

Only 1.18 percent was polled in his constituency.<\/p>\n

He was elected receiving least number of votes in the electoral history of Pakistan.<\/p>\n

National Party had not nominated any candidate neither announced support for any.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, a group of opposition parties in the Balochistan Assembly announced they would not field a candidate for the leader of the House.<\/p>\n

JUI-F’s Maulana Abdul Wasay, leader of the opposition in the provincial assembly, said the opposition would not join the new provincial government.<\/p>\n

Balochistan National Party-Mengal chief Sardar Akhtar Mengal said they would continue to play their role for democratic forces.<\/p>\n

A no-confidence motion was submitted against Zehri on January 2 by MPAs Mir Abdul Quddus Bizenjo and Syed Agha Raza and had the signatures of 14 lawmakers.<\/p>\n

In order to retain his position as chief minister, Zehri required the support of 33 members from a house of 65.<\/p>\n

A political crisis developed in Balochistan following the no-confidence motion, with efforts stepped up by the PML-N, which has a government both in the centre and province, to defuse the situation. Zehri was forced to resign after some members of his own party, the PML-N, joined the opposition in its demand to remove him from office.<\/p>\n

The crisis heightened with the resignations of several cabinet members and advisers to chief minister Zehri.<\/p>\n

Zehri had also been advised by Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi to step down as chief minister in order to defuse the political crisis.<\/p>\n

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QUETTA Jan 13 (TNS): The Balochistan Assembly on Saturday elected Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo the new chief minister of the province, days after former chief minister Sanaullah Zehri stepped down ahead of a no-confidence motion against him. Speaker Raheela Hameed Durrani made the official announcement. The election took place amid beefed up security in and around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,46],"tags":[589,390],"class_list":["post-43929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-quetta","tag-national","tag-quetta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43931,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43929\/revisions\/43931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}