PTI plea’s against new delimitation sent to LHC CJ

LAHORE: Justice Shahid Kareem of the Lahore High Court on Thursday referred the petition of PTI against new delimitation to the LHC chief justice for forming a full bench to take up the matter.
The petition was fixed before Justice Kareem and during the proceedings, the judge said it is an important matter and should be referred to the full bench. Few days back, this petition was fixed before Justice Ijazul Ahsan and he had referred it to the chief justice for fixing it before some other bench.
PTI leader Jahangir Tareen had filed this petition challenging new delimitation done by Punjab government for local government election in the province. The petitioner stated that the government intervened in the jurisdiction the election commission of Pakistan (ECP) by doing delimitation following an amendment in Local Government Ordinance 2013. He said the government has no power to delimit the constituencies but it violated the Constitution.He prayed to the court to set aside the amendment in the ordinance and delimitation carried out by the provincial government for being an unconstitutional act.