Things To Know About Sharmistha Mukherjee

Sharmistha Mukherjee, daughter of ex-president Pranab Mukherjee, was recently in the news for her criticism of the morphed pictures of her father with RSS leaders circulating online.

Pranab Mukherjee had gone to attend an RSS event at its headquarters and met its chief Mohan Bhagwat. Immediately after, an image of the ex president wearing an RSS cap and saluting like one of its workers began circulating online. To this, Sharmistha quickly took to Twitter to criticise the motives behind the image:

See, this is exactly what I was fearing & warned my father about. Not even few hours have passed, but BJP/RSS dirty tricks dept is at work in full swing! https://t.co/dII3nBSxb6

— Sharmistha Mukherjee (@Sharmistha_GK) June 7, 2018

Some Things to know about her:

• Sharmistha is affiliated with the Indian National Congress. She is also a trained Kathak dancer and a choreographer. She started training around the age of 12 after she watched a performance by late Pandit Durgalal ji. She was completely mesmerised by his dancing and thus decided to train under him.
• While Sharmistha had previously expressed her lack of interest towards politics in the country, she went on to join Indian National Congress in 2014. Earlier, she was more focused on her dancing career.
• Sharmistha also heads the Mahila Congress and the media department of the INC’s Delhi unit.
• She has been an active advocate of women's safety. In 2016, she took to Facebook to expose her online harasser. In her post, she said the guy named Partha Mandal was continuously sending offensive messages to her on Facebook messenger. Her post went viral online and she was applauded for standing up against her harasser.

“This pervert Partha Mandal is sending me dirty sexual messages. My 1st reaction was to ignore & block him. But then I thought the silence wud encourage him to find other victims. Just blocking & reporting is not enough. I strongly feel such ppl shd be publicly exposed & humiliated. I’m posting screenshots of his profile & messages he sent me. I’m also tagging him. Pls share this post & tag this rat as a msg that these pervert acts will not be taken lightly,” she wrote.

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Nimisha Is An Intern With SheThePeople.TV