KARACHI: Krishna Kumari, a Hindu woman worker of PPP from Nagarparker, andsenior stalwart Mola Bux Chandio are among the four nominees that thePakistan People’s Party finalized for upper house of the parliament here onTuesday.
The PPP candidates for the senate will collect and submit their nominationpapers in the Election Commission of Pakistan’s regional office today.
Other candidates finalized for the senate seats are Quratulain Marri andAnwar Lal Dean, who were given formal given certificates here on Tuesday.
Mola Bux Chandio was elected as Senator in 2009 by PPP-P. In April 2011 hebecame Federal Minister for Law, Justice, and Parliamentary Affairs, wherehe contributed 18th Amendment in the Constitution of Pakistan. In April2012 his portfolio was changed to Federal Minister of Parliamentary andPolitical Affairs.
On 27 July 2012 he became Senior Vice President of PPP-P Sindh.
According to reports, Ms Kumari, who born on Feb 1, 1979, had been living atough life in her childhood when she along with her family members andrelatives had been held in bonded labour
They were set free in a police raid on the farmland of their employer. Shestarted her primary education initially from Talhi village of Umerkotdistrict and then the Tando Kolachi area of Mirpurkhas district. Herparents facilitated her and Veerji’s studies and academic activitiesdespite the hard days they had been facing. She was married off to LalChand, a student of the Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam, in 1994,when she was 16 and a class IX student. She continued her studies after themarriage to get a postgraduate degree in sociology from the University ofSindh.
She started her social activities in 2005 by organising and participatingin different seminars in Tharparkar.
She was selected for the third Mehergarh Human Rights Youth LeadershipTraining Camp held in 2007 at Islamabad during which she covered anoverview of people’s movements in the world, history of social movements inPakistan and a thorough understanding of the governance system in thecountry. She also learnt strategic planning and tools for bringing socialchange.
After completing the training, she worked for the Youth Civil ActionProgramme to identify cases of bonded labour and conducted case studiesfocusing women under bondage, organized workshops and seminars on bondedlabour, sexual harassment at workplace and other human and women’s rightsissues and contributed write-ups to various newspapers.