A BJP MP from Karnataka precipitated controversy on International Women`s Day, scolding a female fornow no longer sporting bindi as a mark of her marital status. K Muniswamy, the MP Kolar, changed into touring a truthful floor in Kolar district — round 70 km from Bengaluru.
The MP, who changed into invited to inaugurate the truthful, changed into taking a examine stalls wherein garments have been on sale. During his rounds, he stopped at a specific stall and requested the seller whether or not her husband changed into alive.
“What’s your name? Why is there no bindi to your forehead? Your stall named Vaishnavi? Wear bindi to your forehead. Your husband is alive, isn’t always it?” he instructed the female. The change changed into stuck on digital digicam and the video changed into broadly circulated, eliciting sharp reaction from many.
“The @BJP4India will flip India into a “Hindutva Iran”. The Ayatollahs of the BJP could have their model of the “Moral Police” patrolling the streets,” tweeted Congress MP Karti P Chidambaram. The timing of the incident — International Women’s Day — brought to the outpouring of anger and complaint on social media. Many commented at the tone and tenor of the MP. Others puzzled why he changed into now no longer following his very own advice.
Rude and insensitive remarks from BJP leaders have again and again made headlines withinside the country over the previous couple of years. In April 2021, the country’s Food and Civil Supplies Minister Umesh Katti changed into recorded lashing out at a farmer who had requested approximately cuts in PDS rice allotment.
When the person requested whether or not they should “starve or die” until Central assist comes, the minister changed into heard saying, “It is higher to die. Actually, this is the cause we’ve stopped giving. Please do not name me”.
In May 2020, regulation minister JC Madhu Swamy changed into criticised for verbally abusing a female activist in Kolar. The minister changed into examining a lake withinside the region while the female approached him, alleging encroachment across the Agrahara Lake. The minister then misplaced his cool.
In October final year, BJP minister V Somanna changed into in Hangala village of Chamarajanagar district to distribute land titles at a public programme while he changed into faced through a female who changed into indignant approximately now no longer receiving a land title. The minister, visibly furious, slapped her. Despite the assault, the female changed into visible touching his feet.
