In a royal Congress wedding, the grandson of Punjab Congress Chief and party’s CM candidate Amarinder Singh, Nirvan Singh tied the knot with Mriganka Singh, who is the granddaughter of former Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Dr Karan Singh in a grand and extravagant wedding affair in Delhi.
The who’s who of erstwhile royal families from across the country on Saturday converged at Kashmir House in Lutyen’s Delhi to attend the wedding.
Here are a few pictures from the wedding:
Members of erstwhile royal families of Patiala, Jammu and Kashmir, Gwalior, the Bushair nobility of Himachal Pradesh and those from Jaisalmer and Kapurthala participated in the marriage functions and blessed the newlyweds.
Nirvan is the son of Amarinder’s daughter Jayainder and Gurpal Singh, while Mriganka is daughter of Karan Singh’s son Vikramaditya Singh and Chitrangada (daughter of late Congress leader Madhavrao Scindia of former Gwalior royal family).
Another grandson of Amarinder and his wife former Union Minister Preneet Kaur, is married to Aparajita, daughter of Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, a scion of erstwhile Bushair kingdom in the state.
The marriage was solemnised with Sikh and Hindu rituals in the presence of their grandparents and other close family members and relatives.
The country’s top political leaders are expected to attend the reception on Sunday which is also likely to be attended by former prime minister Manmohan Singh, and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi.
