Rukhsana Sultana is known to be the Sanjay Gandhi's one of the close colleagues during the emergency situation prevailed in India from 1975-77. During that period, she was present in the old Delhi especially Muslim areas in connection with Sanjay Gandhi's male sterilization campaign. She married to a Sikh general in the Indian Army Shivinder Singh Virk. In addition, 80's to 90's top Bollywood actress Amrita Singh is her daughter.
Ruksana journey began in 1975, the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had announced an emergency, on the other hand, her son Sanjay Gandhi's political journey started. But among them, Sanjay Gandhi was most critical for family planning. He believed that if he can control the population that is being defined as the root cause of all the difficulties of the country, then quickly he will be placed as a prominent leader in the country and the world. Sanjay Gandhi wanted to start this work from the capital and even old Delhi.
The four people who were given the responsibility and Ruksana was one among three others. Sanjay Gandhi entrusted the task to her of persuading people of Muslim community to sterilization in more and more numbers. Then after she started explaining the advantages of family planning to people in the old Delhi house. At that time, her position was so tremendous that the leaders of Congress had to seek help to get him to talk to Sanjay. Even though Several Chief Ministers started talking to Sanjay through him. According to a report, there are 13 thousand sterilizations in the credit of Rukhsana Sultana.
