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PTI, PML-N fight for Punjab

dawn Online
A day after the Pakistan Tehreek-i-lnsaf (PTI) asserted its intention to form governments at the centre and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, as well Punjab, PML-N leader Hamza Shahbaz yesterday appeared confident that his party would retain control over the Punjab Assembly instead of being relegated to the opposition benches.
Hamza, at a press conference in Lahore, said that PML-N is reaching out to independent candidates who won PA seats - claiming that they shared the PML-N's ideology-in order to attain the outright majority needed to once again form government in Punjab.
"In Punjab, PML-N has 127 seats, PTI has 118, while 27, who are independent, share our ideology. Our people are in touch with them," he said.
Hamza's remarks, which come a day after reports surfaced that both he and Saad Rafique had been directed to recruit independents in Punjab, appear to have set the PML-N squarely on collision course with the PTI, whose members yesterday had welcomed all except the PML-N and PPP to join forces to form the Punjab government.
“Minus the PML-N and the PPP, the PTI welcomes all independents and other parties' elected members from Punjab to join hands [with us|,” PTI's Mian Mahmoodur Rasheed had said.
Sources say that party leaders Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Jahangir Khan Tareen, on the instructions of PTI Chairman Imran Khan, have established contact with independents and other parties' MPAs-elect to join hands with the PTI for this purpose.
A party looking to form a government in Punjab will need 149 seats in the 297-seat house. The Election
well as the PML-Zia which got three seats, while Jamaat-i-Islami, Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl, Bahawalpur National Awami Party and Pakistan National Muslim League had one seat each in the Punjab Assembly.
Meanwhile, PPP's Mahesh Kumar Malani has became the first non-Muslim to win a general seat in the National Assembly since the amendment in Legal
Commission of Pakistan will notify the selection of women on 66 reserved seats and eight on minority seats according to the lists submitted by political parties.
In 2013, the PML-N ruled Punjab with an absolute majority — 239 directly elected MPs in the 297-member house. The PTI had played the role of a tiny opposition with 30 seats of its own, eight each of the PML-Q and the PPP, as
Framework Order was passed in 2002.
Malani — who is a Hindu — contested and won the NA-222 (Tharparkar-II) seat where he held his ground against 14 candidates representing the Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) and several independent candidates. He received 106,630 votes while his opponent, Arbab Zakaullah of the GDA, garnered 87251 votes.