The National Assembly secretary filed an intra-court appeal in the Lahore High Court on Saturday against the decision to set aside decisions of the ECP and the NA speaker to accept the resignation of 61 PTI lawmakers from Punjab.

The secretary filed three constitutional petitions in which 61 former members, including Riyaz Fatyana, Karamat Khokhar, and Shafqat Mehmood, have been made parties.

On May 19, the LHC annulled the NA speaker’s notification accepting the resignations of 72 MNAs of PTI. The court declared the acceptance of resignations by the NA speaker and the ECP as “invalid”.

The members were asked to appear before the NA speaker to withdraw their resignations and directed the speaker to review his decision after affording an opportunity for a personal hearing to all the members again.