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Rukhsana Sultana (born Meenu Bimbet) is an Indian socialite known for being one of Sanjay Gandhi's close associates during the state of Emergency in India between 1975 and 1977. During this period she became known for leading Sanjay Gandhi's sterilisation campaign in Muslim areas of Old Delhi.
Aug 14, 2014 · Rukhsana Sultana, chief glamour girl of the Emergency, came to be recognized as a considerable political force for her massive family planning drives in Delhi's Muslim quarter of Jama Masjid. As one of Sanjay's chief compatriots, Rukhsana, a socialite and boutiqueowner, took the areas she was allocated by storm. Her overzealous endeavours to have people sterilized, together with the resettlement scheme, allegedly antagonized the residents to rebel in several bloody confrontations with the ...
Jun 25, 2018 · Sanjay’s close associate and socialite Rukhsana Sultana was one person who managed to annoy everyone from Maneka and Ambika to many of the Congress leaders. Rukhsana was an exotic character, an unabashed exhibitionist, who acted as Sanjay’s point person in Delhi’s Muslim localities.
Apr 24, 2024 · Rukhsana Sultana’s Bollywood connections Rukhsana was the daughter of Zarina, whose sister Begum Para was one of the leading actresses in Bollywood in the 1950s. Just how Begum Para was called the ‘glamour girl of Bollywood’, Rukhsana earned the moniker ‘glamour girl of Emergency’.
Dec 5, 2018 · Rukhsana Sultana is known to be the Sanjay Gandhi's one of the close colleagues during the emergency situation prevailed in India from 1975-77. During that period, she was present in the old Delhi especially Muslim areas in connection with Sanjay Gandhi's male sterilization campaign.
Mar 23, 2019 · Rukhsana Sultana Biography. Rukhsana Sultana was a political socialite of Sanjay Gandhi, a member of Nehru family in the 1970s. She was a close associate of Sanjay during the emergency period and the only female member of the group. Most of her activities with Sanjay were during 1975-1977, and as his staunch supporter she participated in many ...
Mar 11, 2019 · Rukhsana Sultana was born in Jalandhar, Punjab. Her birth name is Meenu Bimbet. Her husband Shivinder Singh Virk was a Sikh General in the Indian Army and had one daughter Amrita Singh who remained a leading Bollywood star of 1980s and later married Bollywood actor and a member of a royal family of Bengal, Saif Ali Khan.
