One hundred and forty eight newly elected members of Sindh Assembly took oath.
Imran
Earlier, Speaker Sindh Assembly Agha Siraj
Durrani took oath. As soon as the oath was taken, the House echoed with Jai
Bhutto's slogans. The speaker was angry at the continuous sloganeering.
Gave a warning to vacate the gallery. Members
are signing the roster after taking oath. GDA, Jamaat-e-Islami and Azad members
were absent from the House and did not take oath.
The first session of the newly elected Sindh
Assembly began with a delay of forty minutes under the chairmanship of Speaker
Sindh Assembly Agha Siraj Durrani. Before this, a documentary on former Prime
Minister Benazir Bhutto was played in the House.
Speaker Sindh Assembly Agha Siraj Durrani
welcomed all the members of the assembly to the House. I heard that there is a
protest going on outside
Those
who were rejected by the people, how to let them in. Sindh Assembly Speaker
Agha Siraj Durrani first took oath on the nomination of Chief Minister Murad
Ali Shah. The Speaker first administered the oath to the oath-takers in Sindhi
language.
Various
members including MQM members took oath in Urdu language. A few female members,
including Mohammad Bakhsh Mehra and Taimur Talpur, took the oath in English
As soon
as the members took oath, the workers in the gallery started chanting Jai
Bhutto slogans. On this occasion, the Speaker said not to make noise in the
House. Later, the speaker got angry and gave a warning. Slogans continued to be
raised. A total of one hundred and forty eight members took oath in the House.
Senator Jam Mehtab Dahar and
Senator Nisar Khoro, two of the one hundred and fifteen members of the People's
Party, did not take the oath. All thirty-six members of MQM took oath
..
Speaker Sindh Assembly asked the members to
start signing the roster.
Members
who come and go will continue to take oath. Meanwhile, PPP member Sharjeel
Memon along with Nasir Shah and Owais Qadir Shah went to MQM members and met
them.
