PPP retains Senate seat in Sindh

Karachi: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has retained Senate’s vacant seat in Sindh.

As per details, PPP’s Khalida Sikander Mandhro won the election for the vacant technocrat seat of Senate in Sindh by securing 97 votes, the results were announced by the returning officer.

The seat was vacated due to the demise of PPP Senator Dr. Sikandar Mandhro, who passed away in the United States on June 11, 2022, after a protracted illness.

Mandhro’s wife Khalida Mandhro was contesting for the seat as PPP’s candidate. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chose to boycott the voting process, while MQM-Pakistan and other parties also didn’t participate.

According to family sources, Dr Mandhro was diagnosed with Kidney cancer – also called renal cancer –and was under treatment in a US hospital.

Born in Badin district, Sikandar Ali Mandhro, 78, was a senior PPP leader, a former provincial minister and Senator since March 2018.

He remained a Member of the Provincial Assembly (MPA) Sindh multiple times from 1993 to 1996, from 1997 to 1999, from 2002 to 2008 and from 2008 to 2013.