Mahesh Kumar Malani


Mahesh Kumar Malani is a Pakistani politician who has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since August 2018. He is the first non-Muslim to win a general seat in the National Assembly of Pakistan.

Political career

He had served as the chairperson of the Sindh Assembly's Standing Committee on food. Then he became a member of parliament from 2008–2013 on a reserved seat, nominated by the PPP. He was elected to the Province assembly of Sindh from the constituency PS-61 as a candidate of PPP in 2013 Pakistani genral election.
He was also elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan from the constituency NA-222 as a candidate of the Pakistan Peoples Party in the 2018 Pakistani general election. As such he became the first Pakistani Hindu to be an elected member of the National Assembly from Tharparkar.