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since November 2020.

Political career

Maisam contested the

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on 15 November 2020 from GBA-8 (Skardu-II) on the ticket from

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. He won the election by the margin of 976 votes over the runner-up

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Shah of

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. He garnered 7,988 votes while Shah received 7,012 votes. On 2 December 2020, he was inducted into the cabinet of

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as the Minister for Agriculture. On 2 February 2023, he was also made the Minister for Food. On 19 July 2023, he was unanimously elected as the Leader of the Opposition in the

Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly The Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly (GBA), formerly known as Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly (GBLA), is a unicameral legislature of elected representatives of the Pakistani territory (''de facto'' province) of Gilgit-Baltistan which is located i ...

. The position had become vacant as

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, the previous Leader of the Opposition, had joined the government after the appointment of

Gulbar Khan Gulbar Khan () is a Pakistani politician who has been the Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan since July 2023. He is also a member of the Gilgit Baltistan Assembly since November 2020. He used to be a member of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F), but la ...

as the Chief Minister.

References

Living people Gilgit-Baltistan MLAs 2020–2025 Politicians from Gilgit-Baltistan Year of birth missing (living people) {{GilgitBaltistan-MLA-stub