Haryana government gets sucked into 'veil' controversy over advertisement
The back page of the March issue of the state government's Krishi Samvad (Dialogue with Farmers) magazine, on its back page, showed a rural woman in a veil and the accompanying message said women behind veil, were Haryana's identity, its pride, reported NDTV.
A picture of Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, who leads the BJP government in the state, was on the front cover of the said magazine, according to media reports.
It has been alleged that Haryana has one of the worst sex ratio in the country.
The Congress has called the ruling BJP government of Haryana of showing "parochial mentality" by favouring the veil.
However, Haryana Minister Anil Vij was quoted by the media as saying, ""It is not mandatory that there should be a ghoonghat, and we do not propagate that. ... At the same time it is true that this [ghoonghat] is a practice in certain places and to that nobody can have an objection."
Talking to NDTV, India's woman free style wrestler Geeta Phogat, who won India's first ever gold medal in wrestling at the Commonwealth Games in 2010, said, ""We have come from a place where girls should be kept behind a veil, would not be allowed to come out... go to school. My father pulled us out from such a state... helped us reach where we are."
Interestingly, Manushi Chhillar, a young Haryana girl won the Miss India title this year.
Image: Geeta Phogat Twitter
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