Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb demanded Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial’s resignation on Friday, saying that his conduct had made him controversial.

Addressing a press conference in Islamabad a few hours after Justice Athar Minallah’s dissenting note in the election delay case was made public.

Aurangzeb said that Justice Minallah’s note had stamped the fact that the decision was indeed 4:3 in favour of rejecting the suo motu notice and not 3:2.

The minister said that a decision which was being rejected from inside the court could not possibly be expected by the public.

She added that the chief justice had proven that he was acting as an ‘abettor’ to Imran Khan and had violated constitutional norms by imposing a minority verdict.

Aurangzeb also said that the parliament had already rejected the verdict.

She also said that the court had refused to form a full-court bench to hear the case despite the fact that multiple parties had demanded it. She added that the court had even refused to hear the lawyer representing the government parties.

She also said that PTI’s government which had come into power through dubious means such as the RTS malfunction was the reason that the country and the economy were in such a state. She added that the court decision of disqualifying Nawaz Sharif was the reason Pakistan was in its current state.