ISLAMABAD: Sardar Akhtar Mengal, the head of his own faction of the Balochistan National Party (BNP-M), has announced his intention to file a reference seeking the disqualification of two senators who voted in favour of the 26th Constitution Amendment Bill, in violation of the party line.
BNP-M senators Muhammad Qasim and Naseema Ehsan had voted in support of the bill, enabling the ruling coalition to complete its numbers in the upper house of the parliament.
Talking to newspaper soon after the passage of the amendment bill from the Senate, Mr Mengal alleged that he was expelled from the visitors’ gallery and the members’ lobby of the Senate by the sergeant-at-arms before the start of the voting process so that he could not meet the two party dissidents.
He said he had gone to the Senate just to have eye contact with the two senators and in an effort to at least make them feel embarrassed, but security officials told him that he could not sit in the gallery and the lobby as per the directives of Senate Chairman Yousuf Raza Gilani.
