ISLAMABAD, Oct 4: Former MNA Nawabzada Ghazanfar Mehdi on Tuesday requested the Supreme Court to stay the Oct 6 local body polls on the grounds that councillors and nazims of union councils could not vote to elect district nazims without taking oath of their offices.
A three-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, Justice M. Javed Buttar and Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed is likely to take up the matter filed under Article 184(3) of the Constitution on Wednesday — a day prior to the holding of the third phase of the indirect local body polls to elect district nazims and members on reserved seats for women and peasants.
In his petition Mr Mehdi has cited a Lahore High Court judgment in which Justice Shabbar Raza Rizvi had held that councillors could not perform constitutional function without taking oath of their offices under Article 255 of the Constitution.
The federal government and the chief election commissioner are respondents in the petition.
Mr Mehdi had earlier challenged the election schedule in LHC, but his petition was dismissed by the chief justice of the high court.
