BJP MP Saumitra Khan sends divorce notice to his wife Sujata Mondal Khan for joining TMC

New Delhi: Senior BJP leader and party MP Saumitra Khan sends divorce notice to his wife Sujata Mondal Khan, a day after she joined Trinamool Congress.

The notice further says that Khan and his family were subjected to mental and emotional torture which increased beyond the level of tolerance and hence he wants to dissolve his marriage with Mondal.

The legal divorce notice further calls upon Mondal to execute the divorce under mutual consent under Section 13 (B) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 within 30 days failing which Khan will be at liberty to file appropriate proceedings in a court of law.

He even requested her to stop using the surname ‘Khan’.

I would request her to stop using the surname ‘Khan’. I am severing all relations with Sujata today. I am sending her a divorce notice. I also request the media to not label her as a ‘Khan’: BJP leader Saumitra Khan, on his wife Sujata Mondal Khan joining the Trinamool Congress https://t.co/wNSniXqa8t pic.twitter.com/9278HFOdgW

— ANI (@ANI) December 21, 2020

Sujata Mondal Khan on divorce

Speaking to news agency ANI, when asked the reason for any problem in her relationship, Mondal said, “When politics enters your personal lives, it becomes bad for the relationship. Saumitra is in the company of bad people from BJP who are trying to instigate him against me. The party that abolished Triple Talaq is asking Saumitra to divorce me today.”

Explaining her reason to leave the saffron party and join Mamata Banerjee, Mondal said, “I joined the party keeping in mind a political view, for respect and security, I left the BJP and joined the TMC.”

“I don’t know how I am getting divorce notice. How my husband who is an MP of BJP and president of its Yuva Morcha was talking of giving me a divorce in an open press meet. This is the same party which is against Triple Talaq. And the MP of that party is giving me divorce only because I am changing my party,” she said.