Ramesh Kumar Vankwani () is a Pakistani politician who has been a member of the
National Assembly of Pakistan, since August 2018. But in 2022 he left PTI. Previously he was member of the National Assembly from June 2013 to May 2018 and a member of the
Provincial Assembly of Sindh from 2002 to 2007.
Education & Background
Vankwani has done Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery.
He was born into a
Sindhi Hindu
Sindhi Hindus are Sindhis who follow the Hindu religion, whose origins lie in the Sindh region and spread across modern-day India and Pakistani Sindh province. After the Partition of India in 1947, many Sindhi Hindus were among those who fl ...
family.
Political career
Vankwani ran for the seat of the
Provincial Assembly of Sindh as an independent candidate from Constituency PS-61 (Tharparkar-II) in the
2002 Pakistani general election, but was unsuccessful. He received 34 votes and lost the seat to a candidate of
National Alliance. In the same election, he was elected to the Provincial Assembly of Sindh as a candidate of
Pakistan Muslim League (Q) on a reserved seat for minorities.
He founded
Pakistan Hindu Council in 2005.
Vankwani was elected to the
National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of
Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) on a reserved seat for minorities in the
2013 Pakistani general election.
Vankwani came to the limelight in September 2014, when he along with
Rehman Malik
Abdul Rehman Malik NI (Punjabi, Urdu: رحمان ملک; born 12 December 1951 – 23 February 2022) was a Pakistani politician and a Federal Investigation Agency officer, having served as the Interior Minister from being appointed on 25 March ...
was removed from a flight from
Karachi
Karachi (; ur, ; ; ) is the most populous city in Pakistan and 12th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 20 million. It is situated at the southern tip of the country along the Arabian Sea coast. It is the former c ...
to
Islamabad
Islamabad (; ur, , ) is the capital city of Pakistan. It is the country's ninth-most populous city, with a population of over 1.2 million people, and is federally administered by the Pakistani government as part of the Islamabad Capital ...
because of their late check-in which caused the flight to delay.
Vankwani January 2018, he was elected as the chairman of the National Assembly's Standing Committee for Statistics. In April 2018, he quit PML-N and joined
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
He was re-elected to the National Assembly as a candidate of PTI on a reserved seat for minorities in
2018 Pakistani general election.
He stood against his party policy in no confidence motion.
See also
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Mahesh Kumar Malani
Mahesh Kumar Malani ( ur, مہیش کمار ملانی) 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 (non reserved seat) in the National A ...
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Pakistan Hindu Council
References
Living people
Pakistani MNAs 2013–2018
Pakistani Hindus
Sindh MPAs 2002–2007
Pakistan Muslim League (N) MNAs
Pakistani MNAs 2018–2023
1974 births
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