New Delhi: Indian
Administrative Service (IAS) officer Tina Dabi, whose first short-lived
marriage to a fellow officer had grabbed national headlines, is getting married
again. Ms Dabi shared the news of her engagement through a picture on the
photo-sharing app Instagram.
“I’m wearing the smile you
gave me #fiance,” wrote Ms Dabi, who enjoys massive popularity on the social
media platform with over 1.4 million followers.
She also tagged the
husband-to-be – 2013-batch IAS officer Pradeep Gawande – in the picture.
Mr Gawande also shared two
pictures on Instagram, they can be seen holding hands in one of them. He shared
two more pictures with Ms Dabi on his Instagram stories.
Ms Dabi late last year
divorced Athar Aamir Khan who she had married in 2018. The wedding made
headlines and was attended by top politicians.
Tina Dabi topped the Union
Public Service Commission (UPSC) examination for civil services in 2015, the
same year Athar Khan ranked second. Their romance and wedding were straight out
of a movie script.
Ms Dabi, a graduate of Delhi’s
Lady Shri Ram College, shot to the spotlight after she became the first Dalit
to top the prestigious civil services exam, that too in the first attempt.
Their wedding reception in
Delhi was attended by Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, Union Ministers and then
Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan.
The interfaith wedding had
generated headlines and a backlash on social media at a time the country was
caught in a debate on communal discord and so-called “love jihad”, the phrase
used by the rightwing to describe what they call a ruse by Muslim men to reel
in Hindu women and force them to convert.
But Ms Dabi had said she was not affected by the uproar, that her marriage was above religious divides. (Agencies)
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