Provincial Assembly Fifteenth Profile Print

 

PROFILE OF FIFTEENTH PROVINCIAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PUNJAB

 

 (2008 – 2013)

 

 

 

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The Basic:

 

Date of Election:

18 February 2008

Date of First Session

09 April 2008

First Sitting Presided By

Ch. Muhammad Afzal Sahi

Total Number of Members

371

Members Who Took Oath on First Day

352

Date of Last Session

26 February 2013

Total Sessions

45

Actual Working Days

302

Total Working Days

414

 

 

 

Speaker:

 

Date of Election/Oath

11 April 2008

Total Candidates or Nominations

Unopposed

Elected Speaker

Rana Muhammad Iqbal Khan

Tenure

11 April 2008 to 03 June 2013

 

 

 

Deputy Speaker:

 

Date of Election/Oath

11 April 2008

Total Candidates/Nominations

Unopposed

Elected Deputy Speaker

Rana Mashood Ahmed Khan

Tenure

11 April 2008 to 20 March 2013

 

 

 

First Chief Minister:

 

Date of Ascertainment

12 April 2008

Date of Oath

12 April 2008

Date of Vote of Confidence

18 April 2008

Elected Chief Minister

Sirdar Dost Muhammad Khan Khosa

Tenure

12 April 2008 to 06 June 2008

 

 

 

Second Chief Minister:

 

Date of Ascertainment

08 June 2008

Date of Oath

08 June 2008

Date of Vote of Confidence

09 June 2008

Elected Chief Minister

Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif

Tenure

08 June 2008 to 27 March 2013

 

 

 

Leader of the Opposition:

 

Ch. Zahir-ud-Din Khan

04 August 2008 to 03 March 2011

Raja Riaz Ahmed

03 March 2011 to 20 March 2013

 

 

 

 

 

Secretaries:

 

Dr. Malik Aftab Maqbool Joiya

12 March 2008 to 04 May 2008

Mr. Maqsood Ahmed Malik

05 May 2008 to 26 February 2009

11 June 2009 to 28 October 2009

Mr. Muhammad Khan Bhatti

27 February 2009 to 10 June 2009

29 October 2009 to date

Mr. Maqsood Ahmed Malik (Senior Secretary)

29 October 2009 to 31 May 2013

 

 

 

Miscellaneous:

 

Dissolution

In terms of Article 112 (1) of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the Governor, on the advice of Chief Minister Punjab, dissolved Provincial Assembly of the Punjab on 20 March 2013