MQM-P mulls legal options over Vohra’s failure to resign as deputy mayor
The party plans to write to the Election Commission of Pakistan after its planned protest on Sunday, sources told Geo News
November 04, 2017
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan has decided to explore legal options after defected member Arshad Vohra’s failure to resign from the office of Deputy Mayor.
The party plans to write to the Election Commission of Pakistan after its planned protest on Sunday, sources told Geo News.
The letter will inform the ECP of Vohra’s parting from the party and will point out an act in the local government law which allows a party to approach ECP in case of an elected party member’s defection.
The act states that an elected member cannot continue to hold the office in case of a party’s objections or if the member leaves the party.
Vohra switched loyalties and joined the Mustafa Kamal-led Pakistan Sarzameen Party on October 29, saying that he was not able to deliver to the people of Karachi [while continuing as a member in the MQM-P].
The decision by MQM comes a day after it was reported MQM-P chief Farooq Sattar has tasked two key members of his party to pacify Vohra and bring him back into the party fold.
Sources said on Friday that the party still has sympathy for the defected leader and it has not yet revoked his party membership. The MQM-P has not yet decided whether to bring a new deputy mayor in place of Vohra, sources had said.
Following Vohra's announcement of joining the PSP, Sattar had claimed that members of his party who have defected to rival political groups could be brought back.
He had claimed that Vohra was worried due to the Federal Investigation Agency's (FIA) recent case against him, which was one of the reasons that he had defected to the PSP.
"Anis Qaimkhani will help Vohra with the FIA case," the MQM-P chief had said, requesting the PSP leader to "take care" of his former political affiliate.
