31-year old Sunita Parmar, a Hindu woman in Pakistan's Sindh province, will become the first from the minority community to contest the provincial assembly elections to be held on July 25. Parmar is a member of the scheduled caste and from the Meghwar community. Scheduled castes are those lower Hindu castes protected by Pakistani law. She will contest the election as an independent candidate for the Sindh Assembly constituency PS-56 from Tharparkar district – in the Thar Desert. According to the 2017 census, Tharparkar has a population of 1.6 million. Half of those are Hindus, of which the majority – like Parmar belongs to the scheduled castes, at the bottom of the social class system. Hindustan Times, owned by HT Media Ltd, is one of India’s largest publications that provides unbiased news, analysis and features on politics, sports, entertainment, lifestyle and more. Hindustan Times delivers the news across all social media platforms, on the web, and at your doorstep. Subscribe to our channel: http://read.ht/fLZ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/htTweets Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hindustantimes iOS:- http://m.onelink.me/bcae8b2d Android:- http://m.onelink.me/986f584a Watch more videos at: http://www.hindustantimes.com/video hindustantimes.com © 2016