Araria (Bihar): In what could be termed as a classic example of love, Mohammad Saddam and Ayesha came in contact with each other through Instagram. The two became friends soon and their friendship blossomed into love and in no time, this led to their marriage. All this happened within a span of five months.
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Ayesha, a resident of Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, without informing her family left to Delhi and from there to a remote village in Bihar's Araria all alone to meet Saddam in Bihar.
Even though Ayesha's family upon learning about the situation tried to dissuade her from marrying Saddam, she did not give up on her love.
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Speaking with ETV Bharat, Ayesha said that she didn't inform her family because they would have never agreed to the match. "I had to take the step to meet the love of my life. I am happy here and have no issues," she further said.
When the local MLA Vijay Kumar Mandal came to know about the incident, he called both the boy and the girl and after having ascertained that Ayesha as an adult wanted to marry Saddam out of her own choice, got them married at his residence according to Islamic rituals.
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To spend her life with her love, Ayesha did not think much about a comfortable life she had back at her home in Meerut and is now living happily with Saddam and his family in Araria's Aishbagh village.
