After having been elected as Leader of the House in the first session of the 17th Punjab Assembly, Sardar Usman Buzdar Monday was sworn in as the 26th Chief Minister of Punjab putting an end of 10-year rule of the PML-N in the country's biggest province. Acting Punjab Governor Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi administered the oath to Sardar Usman Buzdar in a simple but impressive ceremony held at the Governor's House. A large number of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders attended the oath-taking ceremony.
It may be noted that in the House of 358, an aspirant required 178 votes to become the chief minister. However, Buzdar emerged victorious after obtaining 186 votes against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz's (PML-N) Hamza Shahbaz who secured 159 votes. Usman Buzdar has expressed his resolve that the PTI government will implement Imran Khan's vision for progress of the country.
Sardar Usman Buzdar is an advocate and a landlord by profession. Born in May 1969 in the tribal stretch of Dera Ghazi Khan in Punjab, Buzdar is the eldest of five brothers and sisters. While he received his early education from his family village, Barthi, he later enrolled at Multan's Bahauddin Zakariya University for a masters degree in political science and then completed LLB. Buzdar, who remained affiliated with the PML-Q and PML-N in the recent past, had joined the PTI just days before the July 25 general elections. His family heads the Buzdar tribe and his father was elected as lawmaker more than once in the past.