Shamina shafiq biography channel

Shamina Shafiq is the General Secretary of the All India Mahila Congress (AIMC), the women’s wing of the Indian National Congress (INC).

Could you brief us a bit about your background, where did you grow up and study?

Shamina: I come from a joint family in Lucknow. In a middle-class Muslim family, the priority is to get the girl married as early as possible.

In my case, my father was not keeping well, so I got engaged and got married at 17, just before the first-year exams of my undergraduate studies. Frankly, I had never even thought about it.

Shamina shafiq biography channel

I was uninterested in politics during my childhood days, rather disliked most of it, not very sure about the reason.

I was also lucky to have progressive in-laws who never put any restrictions on my education.

I deeply owe it to my mother becau