KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party nominee and most famous person Syed Murad Ali Shah was elected as Chief Minister of Sindh after securing majority of votes on Thursday 16, August 2018.
Murad Ali Shah secured 97 votes while Sheryar Mehr of opposition alliance bagged 61 votes. A total of 158 votes were cast during the election of leader of the house. The lawmakers on Wednesday elected Siraj Durrani as speaker of the Sindh Assembly and Rehana Leghari as Deputy Speaker. Murad Ali Shah previously served as the chief minister rom July 29, 2016 to May 28, 2018.
He faced Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) MPA Shaharyar Khan Mahar, the consensus candidate of the opposition alliance comprising the GDA, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
After last month’s polls, 97 MPAs of the PPP were elected to the provincial legislature, and the PTI secured 30 seats in the House, the GDA 13 and the MQM-P 21.