After all the Nari Shakti and equality speeches, posters and rallies, is India still that backward?
Another political leader, another representative of India, another misogynist.
Nowadays misogyny has become a permanent adjective for India's political leaders, hasn't it?
Kaushal Kishore the Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs of India has made quite a statement regarding the Shraddha Walker case. In his long statement he made his point of view and thoughts on live-in relationships very clear.
"It is the responsibility of girls also, as they leave their parents, who have reared them up for years, in one go. Why are they living in live-in relationships. If they have to do so, there should be proper registration for live-in relationships. If parents are not willing publicly for such relationships, you should have a court marriage and then live together.”
“These incidents are happening with all those girls who are well educated and think they are very frank and have the ability to take decisions about their future. Such girls get embroiled in this. The girls should take care as to why they are doing so. Educated girls are responsible as both the father and mother had refused for the relationship. Educated girls should not get into such relationships," the minister added saying, "What is this live-in relationship, this is giving rise to crime and it is a wrong thing and people are facing its consequences”
For some reason in the mind of the Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs of India, live-in relationship is the reason for Shraddha's death. Moreover he is holding “educated” girls meaning Shraddha Walker responsible for her own death.
Because according to him the reason of death was that they were living together, and the fact that her partner was a murderer, where does this fit in Kaushal Kishore’s theories?
What's more bizarre is the fact that the minister said that if parents aren't giving consent to a couple then the couple should get a court marriage rather than a live-in relationship. Yes, because as soon as a person signs the lines of a marriage certificate, their mind resets, and their personality becomes that of a sane person, right?
Be it a live-in relationship, arranged marriage, love marriage or a two-month long relationship, if god-forbid one of the partners kills the other one, the responsibility, the blame and the mistake is that of the culprit and culprit only.
It's not as if only couples in live-ins are killing each other. I would like to point out recent cases like that of Amir and Simran in meerut, where Amir killed Simran 2 years after their LOVE MARRIAGE. Or the case where BOYFRIEND Akhilesh Gautam killed his girlfriend, Manisha Jaiswar back in july. Don't forget the case of Pankaj Maurya who killed his wife Jyoti, they were in an ARRANGED MARRIAGE.
Lets not forget the various cases where the wife or girlfriend kills their husbands or boyfriends.
Getting back to minister Kaushal Kishore’s comment about how “These incidents are happening with all those girls who are well educated and think they are very frank and have the ability to take decisions about their future” let us assure everyone that the girls who are well educated and are frank don't think that they can take decisions for their future. They know for a fact that they can make decisions for their future. In Fact it is only them who can take the decisions for their future.
It is quite sad that after everything india is trying to do for woman it is the ministers and political leaders, the representatives of our communities that give such statements on national television and have the mindset of “blame the woman”
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