PESHAWAR – Former federal minister Khwaja Mohammad Khan Hoti, who recently resigned as a central vice president PTI, will formally announce joining PML-N at a function being held in Mardan on Monday (tomorrow).
He will make the announcement in the presence of PML-N Chief, Mian Nawaz Sharif during a news conference at the hujra of Arsala Khan Hoti at 11:30 am. Prominent among others, who will also join PML-N along with Khwaja Hoti are Shehzad Nisar Jilani, ex-PPP ticket holder from Chitral, PPP former overseas coordinator Mehrab Gul, social figures Sayed Ullah Khalil and Abdul Razzaq Khalil. In the past, Hoti left several parties, after having troubled relations with leadership of his former parties-whether PTI, ANP or PPP.
Most recently, he quitted the Imran Khan-led PTI on September 12, 2012, after for having less than a year association with it, as he had joined it on December 16, 2011.
Khwaja Hoti has reportedly alleged that he said goodbye to the PTI after sensing that Imran Khan has gone back on his promise to fight corruption, for which he had joined him.
Instead of cleaning the country from corruption, the PTI chief had embraced some of the most corrupt politicians, thus, there was no option other than to quit the PTI, he has said time and again in his statements.
Formally coming into politics in 1979 as a local member of Mardan municipality, Khwaja Hoti has been provincial minister for tourism in 1989, and later became provincial minister for education from 1993 to 1996. Later, he became president of PPP Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 1999. However, due to differences with the party’s top brass, he left the PPP in 2004.
Later, he joined the ANP in 2006 and was nominated ANP central vice president. He contested National assembly election in February 2008 from NA-9. Hailing from Mardan, Khwaja Hoti won election from his native district on ANP and was made federal minister for social welfare.
However, he was unhappy with the portfolio. Resultantly, his ministry was changed and he was allotted the ministry of narcotics. However, he later resigned from the ministry and quitted the ANP too, after he developed differences with the party leadership over certain issues.