KARACHI: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader Syed Murad Ali Shah today filed his nomination papers for the election of new Leader of the House in the Sindh Assembly scheduled for Friday.
Shah will face Khurram Sher Zaman of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) in the run for chief minister's office. Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) announced to boycott the election, while Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) preferred to maintain silence on the matter.
"We won’t give a walkover to Syed Murad Ali Shah," PTI candidate Khurram Sher Zaman announced after filing his nomination papers.
The deadline to submit nominations for the election has expired, while the process of scrutiny has also been completed. On the whole, seven nomination papers were filed and none was rejected.
Shah submitted four nomination papers, with Sikandar Mandhro and Mehtab Dahir as his covering candidates, said the Secretary Sindh Assembly Umar Farooq.
The speaker of the Sindh Assembly would now seek confirmation of the nominations by the candidates, he added.
The election for the new Sindh CM will be held tomorrow at 3 pm and the newly-elected CM would then take oath at the Governor House.
The PPP has got majority in the provincial legislature and can easily get its candidate elected to the top provincial office.
The PML-F and the PML-N have not fielded their candidates against Murad Ali Shah, while MQM decided not to take part in the election as 10 of its members were abroad and one was in police custody.