Is BJP Ally Giving Ticket To Pak Woman Seema Haider To Contest 2024 Polls? Here Is The Truth

Amid rumours of Pakistani woman Seema Haider getting a ticket to contest the next Lok Sabha polls from BJP ally the Republican Party of India (A), its chief on Friday clarified that his party has no links with the woman, who illegally entered India to be with her Indian boyfriend Sachin Meena.

"Our party has no relations with Seema Haider. She has come from Pakistan to India...There is no question of including her in our party...If after all, we have to give her a ticket then it will be a ticket from India to Pakistan," ANI quoted him as saying.

As per an earlier report in Aaj Tak, the RPI had given an invitation to Haider to join it. Party official Masoom Kishore claimed that she will be made the head of the party's women's wing.

Also, she would be made the official spokesperson of the RPI after taking her fluency in Hindi and English languages into consideration, he told the channel.

In addition to it, she will be given a ticket to contest the next Lok Sabha poll while the party awaited security agencies' clean chit for her in the ongoing investigation to find out whether she has links with the Pakistani military.

Seema Haider, a married Muslim woman from Pakistan and mother of four, came across 22-year-old Sachin Meena on PUBG during the pandemic in 2020. After falling in love, she left her country and married him in Nepal. She then went back to her country, sold her property for flight tickets and a Nepal visa from where she illegally entered India with her four children to stay with the man whom she married in May.

She took a bus from Delhi to Noida to meet her lover.

More than one-and-a-half-month later, local police got a whiff of a Pakistani woman and her children's illegal presence in their area. Sachin, Seema and her children tried to evade police arrest and fled, but were caught in Ballabhgarh in Haryana. Police then questioned them and officially arrested them on July 4.

Seema hailed from Sindh province in Pakistan and was settled in Karachi after her marriage in 2014. She has embraced Hinduism and vowed to not go to Pakistan. On the other hand, her husband Ghulam Haider pleaded with her and the Indian government to send her back to his country.

She has written a letter to President Draupadi Muru seeking Indian citizenship as she desires to settle in India with her Hindu husband along with her four children.