Politicos turn up to bless 2015 IAS toppers Tina Dabi & Athar at their reception

IAS couple Tina Dabi and Athar Aamir Khan, who tied the knot in a private ceremony in Pahalgam, hosted a grand

wedding

reception on Saturday in Delhi. Among the attendees were Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, Lok Sabha speaker Sumitra Mahajan and bureaucrats. “It is a wedding of national integration,” said M Ravi Kanth, Chairman and Managing Director, Housing and Urban Development Corporation Ltd.

HAPPY SCENES: Vice President Venkaiah Naidu shares a laugh with Athar and Tina

Tina topped IAS in 2015 and Athar ranked second the same year. The couple fell in love after their training at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy for Administration in Mussoorie, and they had announced their wedding plans last year.

Mohammad Shafi and Tahira Khan

At the reception in Delhi, all rituals were in repeat mode. The couple not only had two weddings, even the entry of the baraat and of the bride happened twice – once just for Venkaiah Naidu, who had arrived early, and again for the rest of the guests later in the night. “Venkaiah Naidu had informed us that he will come around 7:30pm and that is why the baraat came early, Tina made her entry so that the Vice President can congratulate them together,” said a member of the family.

Jaswant and Hemali Dabi

Tina’s father, who was busy attending guests, later told us that the Vice President was also very happy to be there. “He (Venkaiah Naidu) told me that the boy is from J&K and the girl is from Delhi, this is the message that this wedding is giving. I am a proud father. My daughter and my son-in-law, both have been toppers,” he added.

Ria Dabi

Ravi Shankar Prasad

Lok Sabha speaker Sumitra Mahajan

M Ravi Kanth