Newly-wed Nusrat Jahan, Mimi Chakraborty take oath as Lok Sabha members

New Delhi Bengali actorturnedpolitician Nusrat Jahan who recently tied the knot with Kolkatabased businessman Nikhil Jain took oath as a member of the Lok Sabha with her friend Mimi Chakraborty on TuesdayThe Trinamool Congress TMC MP Nusrat looked every inch of a new bride as she was dressed in a beautiful pink and white saree wearing sindoor with wrists full of bangles and hands covered in beautiful curls and swirls of henna designsNusrat Jahan opened her oath by greeting fellow lawmakers Assalamu alaykum Namaskar she said before proceeding in Bangla In conclusion she said Jai Hind Vande Mataram Jai Bangla Jahan later touched the feet of Speaker Om Birla and sought his blessings She was followed by her friend Mimi Chakraborty who also took the oath in Bengali Following her friends lead Mimi too concluded her speech with Jai Bangla Jai Bharat Vande MataramNusrat Jahan and Mimi Chakraborty had skipped oathtaking for Lok Sabha members on June 17 and 18 owing to Nusrats wedding festivities in Turkey The celebrations took place in the Turkish town of Bodrum and were attended by close friends and familyJahan and her actor friend Mimi took the political plunge this year and won from Basirhat and Jadavpur parliamentary constituencies respectivelyNusrat JahanEver since their candidature had been announced by the TMC both Bengali actresses were subjected to trolling and hatred on social media for having no political experience or credentials to contest pollsIn May the two MPs faced backlash on social media over their choice of clothes for their first day in Parliament The two young women had posted separate pictures in front of the Parliament on their first day after being elected as MPs However the netizens felt that their choice of clothes to attend a session in Parliament which is considered as a temple of democracy was inappropriateTop news stories of the daySex toys worth Rs 8 crore confiscated in two years in MumbaiIn the worlds second populous nation the obsession with sex toys shouldnt come as a surprise What however does is the massive quantity of it being illegally brought into the country The toys are regularly detained by the Customs Department A Right To Information query filed by activist Prithviraj Maske revealed that from 2017 to January 2019 the Airport Special Courier Cell of the Mumbai Customs Department had seized sex toys worth Rs 8 crore Read full storyMurder Mystery Solved 3D face helps cops crack caseThe forensic department of the KEM Hospital has helped the Navghar police crack a twomonthold murder case with the help of facial reconstruction and 3D superimposition technology which they used to put a face on the victims severely fractured skull Yogesh Rane a worker at a tea stall in Mulund had in March smashed the face of his colleague Vijay Kishor and burnt his upper body for laughing at him at the gym He was caught after he attempted to kill another coworker when the latter started asking him questions about Kishors sudden disappearance Read full storyMumbai Corporators oppose parking fines say additionl infra requiredThe Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporations BMC decision to tackle the citys illegal parking menace has fallen flat with corporators opposing the move of charging hefty fines without providing the required infrastructure or additional parking space to citizens Not only members of the ruling coalition even the Opposition opposed the move at the civic bodys general body meeting on Monday Read full storyMumbais top cop pedals to 1500 km cycling historyIndian Police Service IPS Krishna Prakash special inspector general of police IGP administration Maharashtra is back home in Mumbai after creating cycling history The tough cop has finished a stupendous fourth in the mens open category of the Race Across West RAW in USA The race which requires cycling for approximately 1500 km across four American states started on June 11 and ended on June 14 Read full storyBandra court asks police to probe case of school that blamed child for bad touchThe Bandra Court has directed the Santacruz police to register an offence against a reputed school in Vile Parle after a petitioner parent alleged mental harassment of her child by it Last year the eightyearold child was reprimanded for inappropriately touching his classmates by the school The parents later complained that the way the school treated the child thereon was harassment Read full storyEdited by midday online desk with inputs from ANICatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates