Pak Hindu migrant elected sarpanch in Rajasthan panchayat polls

A Pakistani Hindu migrant is now the sarpanch of Natwada village in Tonk district of Rajasthan. The 36-year-old won the election by 365 votes.

Tonk:A Pakistani woman Nita Kanwar, who migrated to Jodhpur from Sindh in Pakistan nearly a decade back, chasing her dream of a good education and a marriage partner, is now the sarpanch of Natwada village in Tonk district. The 36-year-old won the election by 365 votes.

Nita Kanwar migrated in 2001 and got her BA degree from Sophia College in Ajmer in 2005 and married Punya Pratap Karan in 2011.

Despite being married to Punya Pratap Karan, the son of Thakur Laxman Karan of Natwara, she had to wage an eight-year-long battle to get Indian Citizenship.

She said she had to fight for three years to receive Indian citizenship and it was last September when the Tonk district administration handed over the papers.

She had migrated with her sister Anjana Sodha, who is also married and settled in Jodhpur.