ISLAMABAD – A meeting of the Council of Common Interests (CCI) will take up a matter pertaining to delimitation of the constituencies according to the provisional census carried out this year today (Monday).
Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi will chair the meeting, which will be attended by chief ministers of all provinces and selected representatives of the federal government.
A deadlock between the government and opposition over a constitutional amendment to change constituencies as per latest population count forced the ruling party to call a meeting of the CCI.
The PPP has been demanding that the issue should be taken up in the CCI before bringing the 25th amendment to the Constitution.
Federal ministers for finance, inter-provincial coordination and industries and four provincial chief ministers — the ministers for law, statistics and planning and other members will attend the meeting.
Meanwhile, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM) has also reject the census conducted by the government this year.
Last week, the parties had agreed to keep the numbers of NA seats unchanged but change the quota of the provincial in the wake of the census results.
The controversy erupted when the opposition parties, including PPP, PTI and MQM withdrew their support at a time when the bill was tabled for 25th amendment. Most of the government legislators avoided the bill as they did not attend the session.
The government on Nov 6 discontinued the session and the decision was reviled by the Opposition Leader Khursheed Shah during a media talk.
