QUETTA: Balochistan Governor Zahoor Ahmad Agha has accepted the resignation rendered by CM, BAP leader, Jam Kamal Khan here on Sunday (24th of October, 2021).
Taking to the Twitter Jam Kamal stated: “Beside many deliberate political hindrances,I have given my utmost time and energy for the overall governance and development of Balochistan. I would rather leave respectfully and not be part of their monetary agenda and bad governance formulation.”
Porte Parole of the Provincial governor has also confirmed that Jam Kamal Khan had submitted his resignation that was accepted. According to sources Balochistan Assembly Speaker Mir Abdul Quddus Bizenjo will take oath as the new Chief Minister. Jam tendered his resignation after weeks of political confusion: While Jam Kamal Khan was saying that he would fight instead of leaving, the disgruntled BAP members went on to tabled a no-confidence motion.
Cynics go haywire noting that earlier Jam Kamal Khan’s opponents had claimed that their four colleagues (MPAs Akbar Askani, Bushra Rind, Laila Tareen and Mahjabeen Sheran) were kidnapped. And later the same returned to Quetta in the official plane of the provincial government. The enigma is still to be deciphered: were they forced to go to Islamabad; why they were brought back onboard an official plane.
Jam Kamal took oath as the sixteenth CM of Balochistan when he was elected as Leader of the House during the Balochistan Assembly session. He secured 39 votes while his opponent Younus Aziz Zehri of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal got 20 votes. Incidentally he had become the 3rd generation of the Jam clan to serve as the CM of Balochistan. Jam Kamal Khan’s father Jam Yousaf and grandfather Jam Ghulam Qadir also remained the CMs. Jam Kamal started his political career under the patronage of his father.
Jam was elected City Nazim of Hub in the 1998 local bodies elections and the District Nazim of Lasbela in 2001. After his father’s death in 2013, he was made the Jam of Lasbela. The same year, he won the NA election as an independent candidate. He joined the ruling PML-N and was made the minister of state for petroleum and natural resources. In the month of March 2018, Jam Kamal and other dissidents of the PML-N and Pakistan Muslim League-Q along with others formed the BAP.
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