At 'Beti Bachao' Event, Haryana CM Quotes Minister On Marrying Kashmiri Girls, Draws Flak
Ever since Monday when the government announced the scrapping of Article 370, a number sick and perverted memes have been making rounds on social media claiming that how now everyone can marry Kashmiri girls.
This then got political patronage with controversial UP BJP MLA Vikram Singh Saini claiming that now his party workers can marry fair girls from Kashmir.
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Not just him there was a sudden spike in the number of people searching images of Kashmiri girls and 'how?to marry a Kashmiri girl' etc on Google.
Now another politician wants Kashmiri brides for people of his state. Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has stoked a controversy, quoting another party leader that after?the scrapping of Article 370, girls from Kashmir can now be bought?for marriage.
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Ironically he was speaking at an event to mark the success of?Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao?campaign in Haryana.
“Our Minister OP Dhankar used to say that he will have to bring daughters-in-law from Bihar. People nowadays have started saying the route to Kashmir is cleared and now we will bring girls from Kashmir.?Jokes apart, if there is a good (sex) ratio, the balance in the society will be set right," Khattar said he said.
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“Haryana was infamous due to the low birth rate of daughters. But then the government launched Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao campaign, after which the number of girls born per 1,000 boys has increased from 850 to 933. We have to now take this number to 1,000,” the chief minister said.
Incidentally, Haryana has a history of 'getting' brides for its youths from other states, because there are not enough girls in there to be married.
Thanks to the decades of illegally female foeticide and the obsession for a boy child, Haryana has the worst sex ratio in the country.
This had forced many to 'purchase' brides from other states, called paro or ‘Mol-ki-bahu’(outside woman). According to some reports, these 'brides' who are often trafficked by middlemen from other states like n Uttarakhand, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Odisha can be 'purchased' a for as low as Rs 700.
