She’s a busy hotshot MP now, but it was sweet to see veteran actress Hema Malini tweet happily on Monday about the latest honour, humble as it was, that came her way… “Yday 14 societies of Juhu Scheme celebrated the Nutan Varsh Milan 2014. Shatrughan & me were felicitated having been elected to LS frm Juhu,” was how she put it.
The ‘Dream Girl’s thumping win from Mathura was indeed the stuff dreams are made of. However she created something of a nightmare recently with her controversial remarks that widows from Bengal and Bihar should not crowd Vrindavan, the holy city in Uttar Pradesh and home to thousands of destitute women.
“If they (widows) are not from here then there is no need for them to come here from other states. There are many famous temples in Bengal and Bihar too, where they can stay,” the 65-year-old Lok Sabha BJP MP had said.
Her point was that there are already 40,000 widows in Vrindavan and there was no room to accommodate more. “There are 40,000 widows in Vrindavan. I think there is no more place in the city. A large population is coming from Bengal… that’s not right. Why don’t they stay in Bengal? There are nice temples there. The same is true for those from Bihar,” she had said, adding that the responsibility of looking after widows should be of states from where they hail from. Agree with her views or not, you have to hand it to Amma for always speaking her mind!
