Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s members of parliament reached the National Assembly, hoping to attend the session on Thursday. However, they changed their strategy after facing a technical hurdle.

The members said they would wait to receive written copies of the Lahore High Court’s verdict so the speaker would not be able to prevent them from attending the session.

The members gathered in Senator Shehzad Waseem’s chamber. They were instructed by Imran Khan to reach the parliament on Wednesday.

LHC suspended the Election Commission’s action of accepting 43 PTI resignations on Wednesday. Party leader Asad Umar had said that with the court’s relief, Raja Riaz’s days as opposition leader in the National Assembly were numbered.

PTI’s parliamentary party is in control of ‘dissident’ members led by Raja Riaz, who broke away at the time of the no-confidence vote that removed Imran Khan from government. PTI is hoping to remove Riaz from the opposition leader’s slot by resending these 43 members to the house.

On the other hand, the assembly’s officials immediately geared up to stop the PTI members from entering the house. Assembly officials have claimed that they have still not received a copy of the LHC’s verdict. They aslo said that since the court verdict only mentioned the ECP in the verdict, the speaker’s action of accepting resignations still stands.