Madhya Pradesh Cupboard Minister Kailash Vijayvargiya has stirred up the hornet’s nest but once more. At a latest public occasion held in Indore, Vijayvargiya stated he didn’t “like women who put on skimpy garments”.
In a speech he made on the occasion, Vijayvargiya, a senior Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) chief and Madhya Pradesh’s minister for city improvement and parliamentary affairs, drew comparisons between Indian and Western tradition, saying: “Right here in India, we think about a lady stunning when she attire effectively, wears jewelry, and adorns herself gracefully. Within the West, a girl sporting fewer garments is taken into account stunning. I don’t agree with that”.
Persevering with his comparability, he stated: “There’s a saying in Western nations {that a} girl who wears fewer garments is taken into account very stunning, simply as a pacesetter who speaks much less is taken into account good. However I don’t imagine in that. I imagine a girl is a type of the goddess. She ought to put on good garments. I don’t discover girls in revealing garments engaging”.
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He then went on to say: “Generally women come to take selfies with me. I inform them – ‘Beta, are available correct garments subsequent time, then we’ll take a photograph’.”
Vijayvargiya’s staff have refused to touch upon the problem. In the meantime, the Congress claimed the feedback “confirmed the BJP mentality”.
“Their mentality has been uncovered to the general public,” Congress spokesperson Abhinav Barolia advised The Indian Categorical.
This isn’t the primary time Vijayvargiya has made feedback on girls’s clothes. Whereas attending a Hanuman Jayanti occasion in Indore in 2023, he remarked: “I received’t lie on Hanuman Jayanti… however women lately put on such filthy garments… We name girls goddesses, however they don’t seem that approach… They appear like Shurpanakha (a demoness from Hindu mythology). God has given you a stunning physique, no less than put on first rate garments. Train your youngsters values”.