Islamabad: PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif yesterday described the dethroning of former Balochistan chief minister Sanaullah Zehri as “a joke with democracy” and vowed to unearth the motives behind the “conspiracy”, reports The Dawn.

“It is beyond perception as to why a member of a minority party who secured just a few hundred votes was made the chief minister,” Sharif was quoted as saying during an advisory meeting on Balochistan. He was referring to new Balochistan CM Mir Abdul Quddus Bizenjo, who replaced Zehri last week.

“I have convened a meeting to probe the matter,” Sharif said. “Dethroning a chief minister of a majority party in an engineered manner to bring forth a person whose guarantee money was nearly confiscated is a joke with the nation and democracy,” Sharif said.