After creating a flutter with their wedding, IAS couple Tina Dabi and Athar Amir Khan hosted a grand wedding reception in Delhi on Saturday.
While the groom was wearing a golden sherwani with fetching pagdi, the bride was dressed in wine-coloured lehanga and golden dupatta.
Who’s who of the Indian politics were in attendance to bless the young couple.
Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan and Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad were seen congratulating the IAS couple.
This is their third wedding function. The 2016 batch IAS officers had got married at a simple court ceremony in Jaipur. After that they had a beautiful destination wedding in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam also.
While the second function was in groom’s home state, the third function happened to be in bride’s home town – Delhi.
The proud parents of the young couple were also seen during the function.
Soon after the topping the prestigious UPSC exams, Dabi was hailed as the epitome of gender equality.
Topping the list in her first attempt, Dabi graduated from the Lady Shri Ram College of Delhi University.
Dabi was followed by Athar Aamir Ul Shafi Khan of Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district.
But it was the love story between Dabi and Khan that made the two a dream couple.
Many said that though Khan lost out to Dabi in the UPSC race, but at the end he won her heart.
‘Uske liye pehli nazar mein pyaar ho gaya (For him, it was love at first sight),’ Dabi had said about Khan soon after they announced their marriage plans.
The two met during the 2016 felicitation ceremony in North Block’s DoPT office and by the evening he was knocking at her door.
Dabi had said that she was floored by his wit and charm, and added: “I thank Aamir every day for his perseverance. He is a wonderful person. We would be tying the knot very soon.”
