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Chaudhry Muhammad Arshad Jutt is a Pakistani politician who was a Member of the

Provincial Assembly of the Punjab The Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, also known as the Punjab Assembly, is the supreme legislative body of Punjab, a province of Pakistan. It convenes at the Assembly Building in Lahore, the capital of Punjab. It is a unicameral legislature o ...

, from 2002 to May 2018.

Early life and education

He was born on 20 April 1970 in

Chichawatni Chichawatni (, ) is a city in the Sahiwal District of the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is the administrative center of Chichawatni Tehsil. Situated near the old main road called Grand Trunk Road, it lies approximately from the district c ...

. He has a degree of Bachelor of Arts and a degree of Bachelor of Law which he obtained in 2001 from

Bahauddin Zakariya University Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU) () is a public university with its main campus located in Multan, Punjab, Pakistan. Bahauddin Zakariya University was founded in 1975 as Multan University, and is the 2nd largest university in Punjab follow ...

Political career

He was elected to the

as a candidate of

Pakistan Peoples Party The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is a political party in Pakistan and one of the three major List of political parties in Pakistan, Pakistani political parties alongside the Pakistan Muslim League (N) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. With a Cent ...

(PPP) from Constituency PP-225 (Sahiwal-VI) in the

2002 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on 10 October 2002 to elect the 12th National Assembly and four Provincial Assemblies. The elections were held under the military government of Pervez Musharraf. The two mainstream parties, Pakistan ...

. He received 35,198 votes and defeated Muhammad Munir Azhar. He was re-elected to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of

Pakistan Muslim League (Q) The Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid e Azam Group) ; ''Pākistān Muslim Līg (Qāf)'', Acronyms: PML(Q), PML-Q, PMLQ, "Q League" (officially registered as the Pakistan Muslim League) is a political party in Pakistan. As of the 2024 parliamentary e ...

(PML-Q) from Constituency PP-225 (Sahiwal-VI) in the

2008 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on 18 February 2008 to elect members of the 13th National Assembly and the four Provincial Assemblies. On 3 November 2007 President Pervez Musharraf enacted a state of emergency; elections were initia ...

. He received 36,398 votes and defeated Rai Muhammad Murtaza Iqbal, an independent candidate. He was re-elected to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of

Pakistan Muslim League (N) The Pakistan Muslim League (N) or (PML(N)) is a Centre-right politics, centre-right, Conservatism in Pakistan, conservative political party in Pakistan. It is currently the third-largest party in the Senate of Pakistan, Senate and the larges ...

(PML-N) from Constituency PP-225 (Sahiwal-VI) in the

2013 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on Saturday 11 May 2013 to elect the members of the List of members of the 14th National Assembly of Pakistan, 14th National Assembly of Pakistan, National Assembly and the four Subdivisions of Pakistan, Pr ...

. He received 45,689 votes and defeated Rai Muhammad Murtaza Iqbal, a candidate of

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is a political party in Pakistan established in 1996 by cricketer and politician Imran Khan, who served as the country's prime minister from 2018 to 2022. The party is led by Gohar Ali Khan since late 2023. ...

(PTI). In the same election, he also ran for the seat of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as an independent candidate from Constituency PP-226 (Sahiwal-VII) but was unsuccessful. He received 94 votes and lost the seat to

Chaudhry Muhammad Hanif Chaudhry Muhammad Hanif Jutt is a Pakistani politician who was a Member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, from May 2013 to May 2018. Early life and education He was born on 9 November 1963 in Chichawatni. He graduated in 1986 from Unive ...

References

Living people 1970 births Pakistan Muslim League (Q) politicians Pakistan Muslim League (N) politicians Pakistan People's Party politicians Punjab MPAs 2002–2007 Punjab MPAs 2008–2013 Punjab MPAs 2013–2018 Bahauddin Zakariya University alumni People from Chichawatni {{PunjabPK-MuslimN-MPA-stub