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Malik Nauman Ahmad Langrial is a

Pakistani politician The Politics of Pakistan () takes place within the framework established by the constitution. The country is a federal parliamentary republic in which provincial governments enjoy a high degree of autonomy and residuary powers. Executive p ...

who was a member of the

Provincial Assembly of the Punjab The Provincial Assembly of the Punjab is a unicameral legislature of elected representatives of the Pakistani provinces, Pakistani province of Punjab (Pakistan), Punjab, which is located in Lahore, the provincial capital. It was established under ...

from August 2018 till May 2022. Previously he was a member of the

National Assembly of Pakistan The National Assembly ( ur, , translit=Aiwān-e-Zairīñ, , or ur, قومی اسمبلی, Romanization, romanized: ''Qaumi Assembly'') is the lower house, lower legislative house of the bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Pakistan, which al ...

from 2008 to 2013 and a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab from 2002 to 2007.

Early life and education

He was born on 25 June 1960 in Lahore. He graduated in 1989 and has a degree of Bachelor of Arts.

Political career

He was elected to the

from Constituency PP-226 (Sahiwal-VII) as a candidate of the National Alliance in 2002 Pakistani general election. He received 33,693 votes and defeated Mian Asad Masood, a candidate of

Pakistan Peoples Party The Pakistan People's Party ( ur, , ; PPP) is a centre-left, social-democratic political party in Pakistan. It is currently the third largest party in the National Assembly and second largest in the Senate of Pakistan. The party was founded ...

(PPP). He was elected to the

from Constituency NA-163 (Sahiwal-IV) as a candidate of the

Pakistan Muslim League (Q) The Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid e Azam Group) ur, ; ''Pākistān Muslim Līg (Qāf)'', Acronyms: PML(Q), PML-Q, PMLQ, "Q League") is a Conservative nationalist political party in Pakistan. As of the 2018 parliamentary election, it has a re ...

(PML-Q) in

2008 Pakistani general election 8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of t ...

. He received 39,864 votes and defeated Begum Shahnaz Javed, a candidate of PPP. He ran for the seat of the National Assembly from Constituency NA-163 (Sahiwal-IV) as a candidate of PML (Q) in the

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but was unsuccessful. He received 67,076 votes and lost the seat to Muhammad Munir Azhar. He was re-elected to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of the

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI; ur, , ) is a political party in Pakistan. It was founded in 1996 by Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, who served as the country's prime minister from 2018 to 2022. The PTI is one of the thre ...

(PTI) from

PP-202 Sahiwal-VII PP-202 Sahiwal-VII () is a Constituency of Provincial Assembly of Punjab The Provincial Assembly of the Punjab is a unicameral legislature of elected representatives of the Pakistani province of Punjab, which is located in Lahore, the provincial ...

2018 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on Wednesday, 25 July 2018 to elect the members of 15th National Assembly and the four Provincial Assemblies. The three major parties Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) led by Imran Khan, the Pakistan Muslim ...

. On 27 August 2018, he was inducted into the provincial Punjab cabinet of Chief Minister

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without any ministerial portfolio. On 29 August 2018, he was appointed as Provincial Minister of Punjab for Agriculture. In March, 2021 Langrial became a part of a dissenting group from the PTI called the Jahangir Tareen group. The Jahangir Tareen group was made after Tareen, a close friend of

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and core member of the PTI, was investigated for corruption during his own government. In April 2, 2022 Langrial joined forward block against his own party

and supported opposition's candidate

Hamza Shahbaz Mian Muhammad Hamza Shahbaz (Urdu, Punjabi: ; born 6 September 1974) is a Pakistani politician, who is current Leader of the Opposition in the Provincial Assembly of Punjab, in office since 20 October, 2022, He served in this position from ...

Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi (Urdu, pa, ; born 1 November 1945) is a Pakistani politician who is currently serving as the Chief Minister of Punjab and the President of Pakistan Muslim League (Q), a conservative centrist to centre-right-nationali ...

, the

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, sent a reference against the dissenting MPAs, including Langrial, for defecting from their party's policy. He was de-seated due to this vote against party policy on 16 April 2022. He ran in the resulting by-election for PP-202 Sahiwal-VII as a candidate of the

Pakistan Muslim League (N) The Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) ( ur, , translit=Pākistān Muslim Līg (Nūn) PML(N) or PML-N) is a Centre-right politics, centre-right and Liberal conservatism, liberal conservative political party in Pakistan. Alongside the Pakistan Teh ...

(PML(N)), but was unsuccessful. He received 59,191 votes and was defeated by Muhammad Ghulam Sarwar, a candidate of the PTI. On 13 September 2022, he was inducted into Shehbaz Sharif Cabinet as SAPM. On 8 June 2023, Langrial joined Istehkam-e-Pakistan, a new political party.

References

Living people Pakistani MNAs 2008–2013 1968 births Punjab MPAs 2002–2007 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf MPAs (Punjab) Provincial ministers of Punjab Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party politicians {{PunjabPK-MPA-stub