\u201cI was, am and will remain faithful to my party, to my leader,\u201d asserts PTI NA lawmaker
\n Islamabad
\nReaffirming his loyalty towards incarcerated PTI founder Imran Khan and Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi, MNA Zain Qureshi on Saturday announced resigning as the deputy parliamentary leader after receiving a show-cause notice for allegedly violating party instructions ahead of the passage of the 26th Constitutional Amendment.
\nZain, who is a son of the PTI vice chairman, took to X to announce his resignation \u201cbased on my belief for a free and transparent inquiry and in recognition of the sentiment of our party supporters\u201d.
\n\u201cI do so until and unless I have the confidence and trust of my party and our Founding Chairman, Imran Khan,\u201d he wrote.
\nThe former ruling party\u2019s central secretariat had issued show-cause notices to its NA lawmakers two days after the ruling coalition government-backed 26th Constitutional Amendment was passed in both the upper and lower houses of the parliament in the wee hours of October 21.
\nThe PTI MNAs who received show-cause notices included Zain, Riyaz Fatyana, Aslam Ghuman, and Miqdad Ali Khan.
\nThe said lawmakers had been accused of having \u201cfull intention of defecting\u201d the party policy by leaving the designated locations, avoiding contact with the party or its authorised persons in the several days leading up to the vote in \u201cdisregard of the aforesaid directions and instructions\u201d.
\n\u201cAlso in the interest of public transparency for all PTI supporters, I have now replied formally to my show cause notice providing a comprehensive account,\u201d Zain said, adding that he will remain faithful to his party and its top leadership.
\nIn the previous detailed X post on October 23, Zain had clarified: \u201cI did not vote or even agree to my vote being kept in reserve. I did not go to parliament and categorically denied my vote at every turn, in every circumstance and under every kind of pressure.\u201d
\n\u201cI am committed to party policy and I will reply to my show cause notice with honour and dignity, laying out every single event that happened to me, open to every question asked of me, with corroboration and evidences.\u201d
\nHe has left it to the party founder to decide his fate and announced that he will honour any decision the party leadership makes with grace.
\n\u201cI am the proud son of a great man. Loyalty is a badge we wear with honour. I would never ride roughshod over the sacrifices of our party workers, supporters and leaders,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cI was, am and will remain faithful to my party, to my leader,\u201d asserts PTI NA lawmaker Islamabad Reaffirming his loyalty towards incarcerated PTI founder Imran Khan and Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi, MNA Zain Qureshi on Saturday announced resigning as the deputy parliamentary leader after receiving a show-cause notice for allegedly violating party instructions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-439627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n