MNA Ayesha Gulalai speaking in a press conference outside ECP. Photo: Geo News

ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan on Thursday directed Ayesha Gulalai to submit a written response in the next disqualification reference hearing.

Meanwhile; Gulalai, the estranged Member National Assembly of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has made clear that she has not left the party and will continue to remain part of it, as PTI is not a personal estate of Imran Khan.

Speaking at a press conference after appearing before a disqualification reference hearing at the Election Commission of Pakistan, she said: ?Imran Niazi doesn?t hold any right to expel anyone from the party.?

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Imran on Tuesday had sent a notice to Gulalai stating that she has defected from the party in terms of Article 63 A (1) of the Constitution

She urged the people to not attend PTI?s political gathering scheduled in NA-120. ?People should not go to jalsas of a characterless man. Imran Niazi?s politics of deceit will not continue? she said.Taking more jibe at the party chairman, she added that Imran Khan did not even visit the ailing dengue patients as he fears that he may get infected with the virus.

Gulalai said that the PTI has become hostage to the feudal and rich, and there is no respect for poor and young workers within the party.

?Middle class workers cannot even come on stage at the PTI Jalsas,? she said.

She lashed out at few media channels for not presenting the issues of dengue patients admitted in the hospitals of Khyber Pakhtunkhuwa, accusing them of compromising their impartiality to support the PTI Chairman.

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Earlier, Imran Khan sent a notice to Gulalai stating that she has defected from the party in terms of Article 63 A (1) of the Constitution.

?In furtherance thereof and in compliance with the requirements of Article 63 A (2) of the Constitution, this declaration is being forwarded to you as well as the Speaker of the National Assembly and the Chief Election Commissioner for further action in accordance with the Constitution,? states the notice.

Gulalai, a member of the National Assembly from the PTI, quit the party earlier this month after levelling allegations of harassment and corruption at the PTI chief.

The notice, dated August 28 and sent to Gulalai?s home addresses in Islamabad and Peshawar, states that Gulalai on August 1 publically resigned from the party, did not vote for the party?s designated candidate in the prime minister?s elections on August 1.

?Each of your two aforementioned act(s) and omission(s) fall squarely within and constitute valid and actionable grounds under Articles 63 A (1) (a) and 63 (1) (b) (i) of the Constitution for declaring that you have defected from the PTI in terms of the said provisions of the Constitution.

It also mentions that Gulalai failed to reply to a show-cause notice issued to her by the party on August 10.