Chandigarh: “Sahib, Rukiye! Aap Dhwajaarohan Nahi Kar Sakte. Aap Apavitra hain (Sir, cease! You may’t unfurl the flag. You’re a tainted particular person).” A lady in her early thirties shouted as she rushed in direction of Haryana minister Sandeep Singh to cease him from unfurling the tricolour at Pehowa in Kurukshetra on Republic Day.
The police hurriedly bundled her right into a automobile to take her away from the venue at the same time as she continued to boost slogans towards the minister, who’s going through the cost of sexual harassment.
The intruder, recognized as Sonia Doohan of the Nationalist Congress Celebration (NCP), was unfazed about her motion.
“I opposed Sandeep Singh unfurling the tricolour, as a result of he’s accused of sexually assaulting a Haryanvi girl. Khap Panchayats gave an ultimatum to the Khattar authorities asking him to not enable Sandeep Singh to unfurl the nationwide flag. I additionally organised a rosh (protest) panchayat at Narnaund in Hisar on 8 January demanding his arrest. However quite than taking any motion, the federal government is offering him all of the safety,” Doohan instructed ThePrint.
“I used to be dragged by my scarf wrapped round my neck and brought to the police automobile. They (the police) had the plan to e-book me beneath varied sections, however warnings from leaders of Jind panchayats compelled them to rethink and launch me.”
Doohan had hit the headlines in 2019 when she “rescued” 4 NCP MLAs from a Gurugram resort when Devendra Fadnavis of the Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) tried to type the federal government with a miffed NCP chief Ajit Pawar in Maharashtra.
The 4 insurgent MLAs — Narhari Zirwal, Daulat Daroda, Anil Patil and Nitin Pawar — have been lacking since Pawar had taken oath because the Maharashtra deputy chief minister in November that yr.
Doohan and NCP youth wing president Dheeraj Sharma led a mission that introduced the lacking MLAs again into the NCP fold in a dramatic ‘rescue mission’ from the resort the place they have been allegedly held up by the BJP.
She had claimed that two groups of NCP staff stored a vigil on the resort to seek out an opportune second to deliver out the holed MLAs, proper from beneath the nostril of the BJP staff.
As soon as a recee was carried out, they introduced out the NCP legislators from the rear aspect of the resort because it was not beneath closed-circuit tv (CCTV) surveillance. From Gurugram, the group was taken to the protection of NCP president Sharad Pawar’s residence at 6 Janpath in New Delhi.
In July final yr, Doohan had tried to hold out one other such covert mission in Goa however arrested from the resort the place the insurgent MLAs of the Shiv Sena have been staying on the peak of the tussle between Sena president Uddhav Thackeray and senior chief Eknath Shinde.
At the moment, the NCP spokesperson used pretend id playing cards to e-book a room on the Goa resort to get entry to the closely guarded resort. Doohan was later granted bail by a courtroom.
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Regular rise in social gathering
It was throughout her school days in Haryana’s Kurukshetra College that Doohan stepped into the world of scholar politics. She has steadily grown by the ranks as she has held varied posts together with social gathering’s state president and nationwide president of the NCP’s college students’ wing.
Given her development within the social gathering, Doohan has made her allegiance well-known as on 13 September final yr, she posted footage with NCP chief Sharad Pawar in the course of the cake chopping ceremony on her birthday.
“Blessings from an important particular person matter probably the most for me in my life. At this time on the event of my birthday, my inspiration Hon. Sharad Pawar sahab blessed me by chopping a cake in his presence. For me, nothing is greater than this. Pawar sahab gifted me a pen. This isn’t solely a present for me, however it’s a duty to jot down a wrestle for the sake of public welfare,” she posted on her Fb web page tagging the NCP supremo.
To a question why she selected the NCP for her political profession although the social gathering doesn’t have a mass following in Haryana, Doohan stated as a result of she discovered Pawar sahab an individual who gives girls the respect they deserve.
“Because the defence minister of the nation, Sharad Pawar offered reservation to girls within the armed forces, and because the CM of Maharashtra, he gave them the property rights. That’s the rationale I respect him rather a lot,” she instructed ThePrint.
(Edited by Tony Rai)
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