BJP MLA Pannalal Shakya has once again triggered a controversy by claiming that “women were behind the conflicts in which men died” and invoking Sita, Draupadi and Sanyogita to link women with wars in Madhya Pradesh, with his fellow BJP MLA Priyanka Penchi to stand up and challenge him.
The exchange, captured on video, transformed an agriculture-focused government programme which Chief Minister Mohan Yadav joined virtually into the scene of an unusual public clash between two legislators of the ruling BJP.
The exchange, captured on video, transformed an agriculture-focused government programme which Chief Minister Mohan Yadav joined virtually into the scene of an unusual public clash between two legislators of the ruling BJP. “Why do girls make boyfriends? Barely three months later, Shakya was at the centre of another controversy. He invoked Kaushalya, the mother of Lord Ram, while speaking about the kind of children women should raise.
In March 2018, Shakya offered a startling prescription while speaking about crimes against women, saying girls should stop having boyfriends.
Shakya, however, stood by what he had said. If they stop doing this, the atrocities against them will stop,” Shakya had said at an event at Guna Government College. In June 2018, he said women should rather remain childless than give birth to children who were not “sanskari” and who created distortions in society.
