IAS Officer Tapasya Parihar's Sister Quits UPSC To Enter Politics; Aims To Help People

 IAS Tapasya Parihar recently went viral for criticising the practice of giving daughters away as prizes at wedding ceremonies, now her sister Pratigya Parihar has resolved to stop studying for the UPSC and improve conditions in her community. When Pratigya Parihar saw the issues her village, Jowa, in the Madhya Pradesh district of Narsinghpur, faced, she chose to stop studying to become an IAS official like her older sister. Instead, she entered politics.

The UPSC candidate made this choice because of the Covid-19 lockdown when she was still a resident of her village. She battled the panchayat with the aid of her uncle Vinayak Parihar and won without opposition, as per reports.

Pratigya Parihar Enters Politics

The family name has grown thanks to the father's two daughters, Tapasya Parihar, Pratigya's older sister, who is an IAS officer.

Tapasya Parihar had raised her voice against Kanyadan during her wedding. She informed her father that donating her daughter is not appropriate. She then became viral all over social media.

At the age of 25, Pratigya Parihar ran unchallenged for district president and declared, "I see Didi as an IAS, but there is not so much freedom in the bureaucracy."

Pratigya thinks that by helping others, she will emerge from her experience with a new identity. She wishes to do her duties under such circumstances with complete devotion. Parihar's story has now reached many on the internet and they applauded her for taking the step.

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According to reports, the last 6 years have been spent away from home while Pratigya, a resident of Jowa village in the Narsinghpur district, studied for the UPSC. With her selection to the UPSC, her sister Tapasya Parihar's ambition to join the IAS was realised, and she is now the SDM in Sendhwa.