Peshawar:
The resignation of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur has become a political mystery with conflicting claims coming from the CM’s secretariat and the Governor’s House.
Sources at CM’s Secretariat said the resignation had been sent to Governor Faisal Karim Kundi on October 8, adding that it was now the Governor’s House’s responsibility to move on. However, Governor House sources said they had no registration of it.
In response, Senior PTI leader Sheikh Waqas Acram shared a copy of the recognition of the severance mitigation of the governor’s staff, in which it said it was received at 1 p.m. 22.57 on October 8 after coordination with the Governor’s Secretary.
In a speech with Express Pakinomist, Governor Kundi said he had not received CM’s resignation.
“It is surprising that a senior politician like Sheikh Waqas Akram claims it was presented to a clerk in the Governor House. There is a constitutional procedure – the resignation is sent through an official summary between Chief Minister’s House and the Governor House,” he said.
The governor said that under Article 130 of the Constitution, a resignation must be in written form. “Whoever circulates on social media is an entered draft,” he added.
He said that a resignation is not only submitted on someone’s council – and if it is, it must come towards the party president or the chairman.
“As the outgoing CM has mentioned the party’s founder, the case will be reviewed constitutionally and legally after the resignation is officially received,” added the governor.
Meanwhile, Gandapur said he acted exactly in accordance with Imran Khan’s decision and has already withdrawn. “I will not accept any position now,” he declared, while talking to the media after the PTI parliamentary party meeting at Chief Minister’s House.
According to sources, the PTI parliamentary party accepted Gandapur’s resignation. It also approved the PTI founder’s decision to nominate Suhail Afridi as the new KP chief minister.
The PTI management instructed all KP assembly members abroad to return to the country immediately. The party also decided to take disciplinary acts against all members who remain absent on the day of the minister’s election.
