Sujata Khan was also a member of BJP and even shared the stage with PM Modi in the past.
Calcutta:
A family drama tangled in Bengal’s electoral politics continues to unfold with BJP MP Saumitra Khan sending his wife Sujata Mondal Khan a divorce notice yesterday, a day after he joined the Trinamool Congress. “A party that abolished Triple Talaq asks my husband to divorce me,” he lashed out Tuesday.
Saumitra Khan and Sujata Mondal’s ten-year relationship has been shattered by their political affiliations. Sujata Mondal, 34, resigned from the BJP on Monday and joined the Trinamool Congress, flowing against the tide of defections from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s party in the bitter run-up to the Bengal elections, four months into distance.
Saumitra Khan, 40, fighting tears at a dramatic press conference immediately afterward, asked his wife to drop her last name and accused her of treason. Yesterday he made good on his threat to file for divorce and end his four-year marriage.
Sujata Mondal had helped her husband win last year’s Lok Sabha election after he was barred from their constituency as a condition for bail in a criminal case.
She attacked her former party and accused the BJP leaders of instigating her husband. He also asked why no one at the BJP had tried to talk him out of the divorce.
“When politics enters your personal life, it becomes bad for the relationship. Saumitra is in the company of bad BJP people who are trying to instigate him against me. The party that abolished Triple Talaq asks Saumitra to divorce me today “, said. he told the ANI news agency.
She said she had left the BJP because she felt ignored and abandoned after “sacrificing” so much for her husband.
“I don’t know how I’m going to receive the divorce notice. How my husband, who is a BJP deputy and president of Yuva Morcha, was talking about giving me a divorce in an open press meeting. This is the same party that he is against Triple Talaq. And the deputy from that party is giving me a divorce just because I’m changing parties, “said Ms Mondal, saying that she” still loves “her husband.
“I was always a dedicated person when I was with BJP. I dedicated myself to them and the same is true with Trinamool now. At Trinamool, whatever direction the top party leadership gives me, I will follow.”
Saumitra Khan’s divorce notice said he wanted to end the marriage as he and his family were subject to “mental and emotional torture” beyond tolerance.
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