Nusrat Jahan-Nikhil Jain separated long back: TMC MP says marriage not legal, her full statement

New Delhi: Breaking her silence over strained relationship with husband, Trinamool Congress MP Nusrat Jahan on Wednesday said that her wedding ceremony with businessman Nikhil Jain was invalid and legally untenable.

“As per court of law, it is not a Marriage, but a relationship or a live-in relationship. Thus, the question of divorce does not arise. Our separation happened long back, but I did not speak about it as I intended to keep my private life to myself…The alleged marriage is not legal, valid and tenable; and thus not a marriage at all in the eye of the law,” read the statement issued by Nusrat.

“Our separation happened long back as I didn’t speak about it as it intended to keep my private life to myself,” she said.

Stating that she has built her life based on sheer hard work and would never allow anyone else to share the limelight, she said, “I would never speak up about my personal life or anyone I am not related to. Thus, people who call themselves “normal people” must not entertain anything which is not related to them.”

Thus the question of divorce does not arise. Our separation happened long back, but I did not speak about it as I intended to keep my private life to myself: TMC MP Nusrat Jahan issues a statement pic.twitter.com/9fWBy3KvJH

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Just after contesting Lok Sabha polls in 2019, the actor-turned-MP had married businessman Nikhil Jain in Bodrum of Turkey in 2019.

Stressing that her marriage is “not legal, valid and tenable”, thus, was not a marriage at all in the eye of law, the MP from West Bengal’s Basirhat said it was she who bore the expenses for her sister’s education and her family’s well-being “from Day One”.

“I have made my own identity by my sheer hardwork; thud I would not allow anyone not related to me to share the limelight or a title or followers, based on my identity,” Ms Jahan said in her seven-point statement.