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Haryana Deputy CM gets new
religion, new name, new wife,
and a sack
WSN Network
CHANDIGARH: It
could have been a Bollywood potboiler. Haryana's Deputy Chief
Minister Chander Mohan went missing for a month and then appeared
with a new religion, new name and a new wife. He had converted to
Islam, become Chand Mohd and married a former Haryana law officer
Anuradha Bali who too had converted and become Fiza. Bali was sacked
a few days earlier, and Chand Mohd as soon as he appeared on a TV
channel. On Sunday, his father, veteran Bhajan Lal threw him out of
the house, refused to have any link with him and said he will take
care of Chander Mohan's first wife and her kids.
Chief Minister
Bhupinder Singh Hooda removed his deputy immediately after he
appeared on Star News to announce that he had converted to Islam and
married his friend Anuradha Bali. Hooda cited his long absence as
the reason and termed the rest as personal matter.
Bhajan Lal and
his younger son Kuldeep Bishnoi, who was MP from Bhiwani, had
rebelled against the Congress and formed their own party , the
Haryana Janhit Congress (BL), in December 2007. Chander Mohan,
however, stayed back in the Congress. His wife, Seema Bishnoi, was
at their Panchkula residence.
Chander Mohan
alias Chand Mohd was philosophical: “What is more important is that
you are with the one you love. All these positions are not always
there. If it is my luck, I will get it again.” As he said this, his
new wife was sitting besides him in the car. Asked about his first
wife of 18 years, he said, “Why don’t you ask her? If I say
something, it will not be graceful.”
He is a
four-time MLA from nearby Kalka.
Bali, a
divorcee, had known Chander Mohan for the past five yearssaid, “It
was a big decision for him. His political career is at stake. Such
things only happen in movies. It is very tough to do this in real
life.”
10 December
2008
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