‘Wife never eve-teased as she wears sarees’

‘Wife never eve-teased as she wears sarees’

FPJ BureauUpdated: Saturday, June 01, 2019, 02:45 AM IST
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Panaji : After there were reports of his wife’s comments about Western culture causing rape, Goa Minister for Factories and Boilers Deepak Dhavalikar defended her statement, claiming his spouse has never been eve-teased because she wears sarees.  In a public endorsement of his wife comments, Dhavalikar, who dodged queries from journalists all through Monday, said rapes were fewer in the past because of non-infiltration of the Western culture.  “She has lived her entire life wearing kumkum and sarees. She was never a victim of eve-teasing. That is what she must have explained to people,” Dhavalikar has been quoted as saying in media reports on Tuesday.  “In the past, rape cases were less because they (women) adhered by Hindu dharma and now such cases are on the rise because of the western style of living,” he has been quoted as saying.  In a meeting organised by the Hindu Janajagruti Samiti on Sunday, Lata Dhavalikar said: “Incidents of rape are on the rise, largely owing to the fact that women have adopted western culture.”   He along with his brother Sudin, is a senior leader of the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party, a regional political outfit which is a part of the BJP ruling alliance in Goa.

BAN ON NAKED SAGES

Meanwhile, a minister in Goa who had demanded a ban on bikinis, on Tuesday came down heavily on sages walking naked on public roads. He said it was a “very bad” thing to do and a practice not in sync with the times.  Goa PWD Minister Sudin Dhavalikar’s comment comes days after former chief minister Digambar Kamat’s photos with a naked Jain sage of the Digambar sect during a function in Margao recently went viral on FB.

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