A reference against Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani was submitted in the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday, seeking his disqualification from premiership and the assembly. Chaudhry Mureed Hussain advocate and Aftab Ahmed Bajwa advocate moved the references in the ECP, saying that Gilani was convicted by the Supreme Court therefore according to constitution he was ineligible for holding any official post.
The petitioners giving reference of a case of Mian Najeeb Owaisi and Malik Amir Yar Warren said that any citizen could send reference to ECP against a convicted member of assembly instead of only speaker of National Assembly. They urged the ECP to accept reference and order to disqualify Yousaf Raza Gilani’s as MNA. They also urged the ECP to order stopping work being done by the PM till finial decision of reference was not issued by ECP.