Sikandar Bosan

Early life and education He was born on 5 November 1957 in Multan, Pakistan. In 2002, he was made Minister of state without portfolio and reportedly assigned to Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock In 2004, he was formally appointed as Minister of State for Food, Agriculture and Livestock and later in 2004 was appointed as Minister for Food, Agriculture & Livestock.

In the 2008 Pakistani general election, Bosan lost the National Assembly seat to Yousaf Raza Gilani.

In the 2013 Pakistani general election, he was re-elected to the National Assembly for the third time, as a candidate of the PML(N). He was made Minister for National Food Security & Research in June 2013. Following the election of Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as the Prime Minister of Pakistan in August 2017, he was again inducted into the federal cabinet. He was appointed as the Federal Minister for National Food Security and Research. Upon the dissolution of the National Assembly on the expiration of its term on 31 May 2018, Bosan ceased to hold the office of Federal Minister for National Food Security and Research.

In 2018 he again joined the PTI and was allocated a party ticket to contest election from NA-154 Multan-I, but the ticket was taken back from him and he was expelled from the party on the orders of Imran Khan after harsh reactions within the PTI and from his constituents as he was a federal minister in the PMLN government. He contested the elections as an independent candidate from NA-154 Multan-I but was unsuccessful. He received 37,156 votes and was defeated by Malik Ahmed Hussain Dehar, a candidate of the PTI.