Chaudhary Mehdi Hassan Bhatti is a Pakistani politician. An agriculturist by profession, he hails from the

Hafizabad District Hafizabad District ( Punjabi and ur, ) is located in Punjab, Pakistan. Hafizabad was made a district in 1993; formerly, it was a tehsil of Gujranwala District. It is situated in central Punjab and is known for its rice industry on the agricult ...

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Political career

Bhatti was elected as an MPA for the Punjab Assembly for three consecutive terms in 1985, 1988, and 1990. He was elected for his first term as an MNA in 1993. Later again, he was elected as an MNA in the 2002 general election. Mehdi Hassan Bhatti served as chairman of the Standing Committee of Ministry of

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and

Agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...

in the government of

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Zafarullah Khan Jamali,

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and

Chaudhary Shujaat Hussain Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain ( pa, ; ur, ; (born 27 January 1940) is a senior Pakistani politician from a Punjabi Jat family of Gujrat who previously served as 16th prime minister of Pakistan. Hussain is the party president of the Pakistan ...

. He also served as the member of Standing Committee on Communications, Standing Committee on Planning and Development and Standing Committee on Water and Power. Among his supporters he is greatly admired for the development of Hafizabad during his tenures that includes the upgrade of Hafizabad from a

tehsil A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administr ...

of Gujranwala District to a district in its own right in 1993, as well as the provision of schools, electricity, telephone service, metalled roads and three M-2 interchanges, and Sui gas to the remotest villages of Hafizabad; whereas, his opponents propagate his notorious aspects of his personality. Mehdi Hassan Bhatti is also known for maintaining pressure blocs within national and provincial assembly and it was vividly displayed in 2006 when he resigned from Parliament along with a number of parliamentarians.

Personal life

His brother

Liaqat Abbas Bhatti Chaudhry Liaqat Abbas Bhatti ( ur, ) is a Pakistani politician, who served as a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan. Political career He was elected a member of National Assembly of Pakistan from Constituency NA-103 as a candidate of ...

has been elected as member of the National Assembly 3 times, and he also served as Federal Minister for Public work department from 2010 to 2013. His son Shaukat Ali Bhatti served as the

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and Youth Affairs in the government of Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi in Punjab and was the recent MNA of Hafizabad before he submitted his resignation to Imran Khan.

References

Living people 1955 births Pakistani MNAs 2002–2007 Pakistani MNAs 1993–1996 Punjab MPAs 1985–1988 Punjab MPAs 1988–1990 Punjab MPAs 1990–1993 {{Pakistan-MNA-stub