*KARACHI – Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) leader Mahesh Kumar Malani hasmade history as he has become the first non-Muslim to win a general seatin the National Assembly.*
Malani’s ascent to the Lower Hous’s general seat became possible after theamendment in Legal Framework Order was passed in 2002.
Malani contested from NA-222 (Tharparkar-II) seat and emerge victorious onthe seat. He faced at least 14 candidates representing the Grand DemocraticAlliance, Allah-o-Akbar Tehreek, Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan and severalindependent candidates.
In 2013, Malani was also the first non-Muslim lawmaker to win a generalseat in the Sindh Assembly, PS-61 (Tharparkar-III).
He has served as the chairperson of the Sindh Assembly’s Standing Committeeon Food, and has remained a member of the Standing Committee on Law andParliamentary Affairs and Human Rights, Standing Committee on MinoritiesAffairs, Standing Committee on Energy and Standing Committee on Transportand Mass Transit during the last government’s tenure.
During the Senate elections earlier this year in March, PPP’s KrishnaKumari from Tharparkar became the first Thari Hindu woman to be elected tothe Senate. She was elected to a reserved seat for women from Sindh.