How is the life of the descendants of Mughal rulers? This discussion is happening -aabtak24

The status of the descendants of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal ruler of India, is often discussed. According to a December 2021 report by Aljareera, Bahadur Shah Zafar’s granddaughter-in-law Sultana Begum survives in a two-room slum house on the outskirts of Kolkata and relies on a meager pension. 

< p style ="text-align: justify;"> She was married to Mirza Mohammad Bedar Bakht who was the great-grandson of Bahadur Shah Zafar. Mohammad Bedar Bakht passed away in 1980. After which his wife Sultana Begum was forced to lead a life of struggle.

Petition was filed for ownership of Red Fort

According to the report, Sultana Begum had filed a petition in the court to recognize her royal status and return the Red Fort to her. Then Sultana Begum had said that can anyone imagine that the descendants of the emperors who built the Taj Mahal are living in extreme poverty.

Sultana Begum gets this much pension

According to the report, when Sultana Begum was just 14 years old, she was married to Mohammad Bedar Bakht, 32 years her senior, in 1965. Begum lives in a small hut with one of her grandsons, shares a kitchen with neighbors and washes clothes at a community tap near the road. She ran a tea stall for a few years but the widening of the road moved the shop. At present, he gets a pension of around Rs 6,000 per month. 

One granddaughter got a job, others could not because of this

According to an old DailyMail report, Sultana Begum, a slum dweller in Howrah, is the mother of five daughters and a son. According to the DailyMail report, the government had provided his granddaughter Roshan Ara with a job for around Rs 15,000 per month but the other family members had not completed their schooling and failed the basic government exams when they were offered the job. They went. According to that report, apart from running a tea shop, Sultana Begum earned her living by selling salwar-suits.