Muhammad Ijaz Virk

Chaudhry Muhammad Ijaz Virk is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from March 2008 to March 2013.

Muhammad Ijaz Virk
Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
In office
March 2008  March 2013
ConstituencyNA-83 (Faisalabad-IX)
Personal details
NationalityPakistani

Political career

He ran for the seat of the National Assembly of Pakistan from Constituency NA-83 (Faisalabad-IX) as a candidate of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in 2002 Pakistani general election but was unsuccessful. He received 37,431 votes and lost the seat to Mushtaq Ali Cheema, a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (Q) (PML-Q).[1]

He was elected to the National Assembly from Constituency NA-83 (Faisalabad-IX) as a candidate of PPP in 2008 Pakistani general election.[2][3] He obtained 56,910 votes and defeated Mian Abdul Manan.[4]

In 2013, he joined Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) after PPP refused to allot him ticket to contest in 2013 Pakistani general election.[5]

References

  1. "2002 election result" (PDF). ECP. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 January 2018. Retrieved 12 May 2018.
  2. Mubarak, Saleem (21 January 2017). "Workers to Bilawal: reinvent party as workers friendly". DAWN.COM. Archived from the original on 22 January 2017. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  3. "Winning margin on 88 out of 272 National Assembly seats is 10,000 votes or less". www.thenews.com.pk. Archived from the original on 3 February 2017. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  4. "2008 election results" (PDF). ECP. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 January 2018. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  5. Newspaper, From the (25 April 2013). "Mosaic of shifting loyalties". DAWN.COM. Archived from the original on 5 March 2017. Retrieved 26 July 2017.


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