- Omar Ayub’s resignation not but formally accepted.
- Gohar says Raja’s work as secy gen is inner matter.
- PTI Structure has no provision for secy gen’s nomination.
ISLAMABAD: The structure of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf doesn’t recognise Salman Akram Raja as secretary normal of the PTI.
PTI sources advised The Information that there isn’t any provision within the PTI structure for “nomination” because the secretary normal of somebody who has not been elected earlier than as occasion of the ‘Panel of Secretary Basic’.
Solely an extra secretary normal can take over as secretary normal in case this all-important occasion place will get vacant.
These sources stated that neither Omar Ayub, who was the elected secretary normal of the occasion, has been denotified nor Raja has been notified as but as Ayub’s substitute.
Ayub had resigned from this key occasion place however it has not but been formally accepted. On the route of Imran Khan, the founder PTI founder, Raja is presently serving as secretary normal however it has no authorized backing and as an alternative is in violation of the PTI’s structure.
PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan, when contacted, confirmed that the notification of Raja as PTI’s SG has not been issued. He stated these are the occasion’s inner issues and never all that essential that the media ought to focus them. He stated Raja’s work as SG of the occasion is a part of the interior administration of the PTI.
The sources, nonetheless, insist that it is a critical illegality and violation of the PTI structure. In line with a PTI supply, the occasion’s final prevailing structure was that of Could 2019.
It was amended in June 2022 and held inter-party elections on June 9, 2022. The Election Fee of Pakistan, nonetheless, refused to just accept PTI’s intra-party elections as validly held and declined issuance of the certificates.
The ECP held that the structure of the PTI had not been amended. Sure different discrepancies have been additionally discovered within the documentation and holding of inter-party elections by the ECP, which directed the holding of inter-party elections inside 20 days in response to its prevailing structure of 2019.
Based mostly on ECP route, the PTI needed to maintain its intra-party elections on the idea of the 2019 structure. In December 2023, the PTI held its occasion elections in accordance with the 2019 structure.
The ECP once more didn’t settle for the elections and regretted the certificates on twenty second December 2023. The PHC and the SC upheld the ECP choices as a consequence the PTI’s 2019 Structure bought finality.
Underneath the 2019 Structure, the PTI has a two-tier occasion organisation — the chairman as head of the occasion and the central occasion organisation. The chairman to be elected by votes of all members of PTI for 5 years.
The chairman can’t be nominated even when he resigns. That is workplace by election solely. In case of demise or resignation, the secretary normal is to proceed for as much as 30 days and the election for chairman is to be held inside these 30 days.
As per the structure, the vice chairman, president and 4 central vice presidents are to be nominated by the chairman. These are the one places of work to be crammed via nomination by the chairman.
All different places of work are to be crammed via intra-party elections. The workplace bearers for the places of work of secretary normal, further SG, deputy SG and joint SG are elected for a three-years time period by secret poll on a ‘panel foundation’.
In case the secretary normal is unable to carry out his capabilities for any cause — further secretary normal will take full management as secretary normal. There isn’t any provision within the PTI Structure for ‘nomination’ as secretary normal and it makes Raja a non-entity.
Initially printed in The Information