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In what is being termed as a “sexist” and “misogynistic” statement by several people online, HRD minister Satyapal Singh, in a recent public gathering, stated that no boy will be willing to marry a girl who comes to a wedding ‘mandap’ wearing denims.
Addressing a congregation of students, who gathered for a ceremony marked as the ‘foundation day of Maharana Pratap Siksha Parishad’, the BJP minister, very casually passed on his remark to the crowd.
“Nobody will be ready to marry a girl who comes to the mandap (wedding stage) in jeans,” he said.
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Singh, who serves as a union minister of state for Human Resource and Development department, unabashedly made his point during a function at Gorakhpur, which interestingly, was also been attended by UP Chief Minister, Yogi Adityanath.
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Though some people have argued that the context of the statement was just to reiterate the importance of dressing-up to the occasion, others have called it inherently sexist, stressing that it roots from a prolonged habit of our leaders to morally preach women on what and what not to wear.
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