Punjab Assembly session on 9th
Bureau Report

LAHORE—The inaugural session of the 14th Provincial Assembly of the Punjab will be held on Wednesday with over 350 members to take oath in house of 371. PML-N, part of ruling coalition have 165 seats in the assembly followed by PPP 106, PML(Q) 86, MMA 2 PML-F4 and independents 2.
PML-N has tipped Sardar Dost Muhammad Khosa son of Zulfiqar Khosa ,ex-governor and President PML-N Punjab as interim Chief Minister before Shahbaz Sharif get’s elected in by-election and reaches the house to take slot of provincial Chief executive of the province. Rana Muhammad Iqbal will be the candidate of the coalition for speaker of the Punjab assembly.
Brief history of the Punjab Assembly is as follows; After the creation of the country, first session of the assembly was held on January 5,1948 and last from March 15,1948 to April 4 1948. Sheikh Faiz Muhammad was elected unopposed as its speaker on January 5,1948 and it had total 103 members. It was dissolved by Governor on January 25,1949.In total its two session were held and its actual working days were 29.
The first session of the second assembly of the Punjab was held on May 7,1951. Its total members were 193 while Dr.Khalifa Shuja Uddin was elected its speaker. With creation of one unit it ceased to exist on October 14,1955.