Maharashtra: Clamour to ‘slap, kick, tonsure’ Ramdev for his sexist utterances

By IANS

MUMBAI: A day after Yoga professional Ramdev’s stark feedback on girls’s apparel from his viewpoint, the classical saying, ‘Hell hath no fury like a girl scorned’ was quick turning true, right here on Saturday.

Furious political, social, girls and farm activists brutally slammed Ramdev’s remarks with calls to “slap, kick and tonsure” him emanating from varied quarters.

Speaking at a free Yoga coaching programme for ladies on Friday in Thane, Ramdev blurted out with out batting an eyelid: “Women look good in saris, they look great in salwar suits, and in my view they look good even if they don’t wear anything.”

Apparently getting carried away by the massive gathering of girls, Ramdev was flanked by Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena Thane MP Shrikant Shinde, the son of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, and singer Amruta Fadnavis — spouse of Bharatiya Janata Party’s Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, and different outstanding personalities.

Expressing shock, farm widows’ chief Aparna Malikar from Vidarbha mentioned Ramdev’s assertion was nothing in need of a ‘revelation’ of what goes on in his ‘filthy thoughts’ and serves as a warning to all girls going earlier than him to stay ‘extra-alert’.

Senior Shiv Sena (UBT) leaders like MP Sanjay Raut, MLC Dr. Manisha Kayande and National Spokesperson Kishore Tiwari pounced on Ramdev for his “outrageous” remarks that insulted all the ladies of the nation.

“Why could not Amruta Fadnavis just get up and slap him there? This is my question,” an agitated Raut requested.

Kayande additionally attacked the Dy CM’s spouse demanding “she should have kicked him and walked out of the programme” however shockingly she was laughing, laughing, having fun with Ramdev’s remarks “as if he was doing an honour to womanhood”.

Calling Ramdev “a disciple of the jailed perverts like Asaram Bapu and Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh”, a fuming Tiwari mentioned the federal government ought to take suo moto motion in opposition to him for his brash phrases.

“I am asking Amruta Bittiya… Why did you keep quiet when you witnessed all this? Did you also get carried away after he started praising you? What’s your stand now for all your sisters… And why don’t you strongly condemn Ramdev Baba,” Tiwari requested gently.

“The whole country had seen years ago how Ramdev had worn a sari and ran at night to escape the police in Delhi…. How will he run now from the angry women? Will his relative and the crusading Amravati MP Navneet Kaur Rana care to react to (Ramdev’s) obnoxious behaviour,” demanded Kayande sharply.

Nationalist Congress Party’s Chief Spokesperson Mahesh Tapase mentioned Ramdev’s statements have been clearly ‘vulgar and anti-women’ and requested why the state authorities was protecting a deafening silence as a substitute of appearing on the difficulty that has enraged womenfolk throughout.

Social activist Trupti Desai mentioned she and the womenfolk have been “aghast” at Ramdev’s public assertion which signifies how his thoughts works in the direction of girls.

“We strongly denounce him. We want the state and national commissions for women to take suo moto note of it and initiate action, otherwise we shall storm his next programme,” Desai warned.

Demanding an unconditional apology, an irate Malikar additionally threatened to take a morcha at Ramdev’s subsequent yoga camp in Maharashtra the place they’d “catch him, tonsure him and chop off his beard” as a punishment.

Ramdev, 56, had performed a Yoga Science Camp & Women’s Meeting by way of his Patanjali Yoga Peeth and Mumbai Mahila Patanjali Yoga Samiti in Thane.

The bearded yoga grasp interacted with the ladies who couldn’t change from their yoga apparel to saris, which purportedly caught his eye and resulted within the verbal debacle quickly afterwards that snowballed into an enormous row.

Ramdev additionally urged the folks to stay completely happy and smiling, just like Amruta Fadnavis – as he glanced and complimented her – to dwell a protracted and wholesome life.

MUMBAI: A day after Yoga professional Ramdev’s stark feedback on girls’s apparel from his viewpoint, the classical saying, ‘Hell hath no fury like a girl scorned’ was quick turning true, right here on Saturday.

Furious political, social, girls and farm activists brutally slammed Ramdev’s remarks with calls to “slap, kick and tonsure” him emanating from varied quarters.

Speaking at a free Yoga coaching programme for ladies on Friday in Thane, Ramdev blurted out with out batting an eyelid: “Women look good in saris, they look great in salwar suits, and in my view they look good even if they don’t wear anything.”

Apparently getting carried away by the massive gathering of girls, Ramdev was flanked by Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena Thane MP Shrikant Shinde, the son of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, and singer Amruta Fadnavis — spouse of Bharatiya Janata Party’s Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, and different outstanding personalities.

Expressing shock, farm widows’ chief Aparna Malikar from Vidarbha mentioned Ramdev’s assertion was nothing in need of a ‘revelation’ of what goes on in his ‘filthy thoughts’ and serves as a warning to all girls going earlier than him to stay ‘extra-alert’.

Senior Shiv Sena (UBT) leaders like MP Sanjay Raut, MLC Dr. Manisha Kayande and National Spokesperson Kishore Tiwari pounced on Ramdev for his “outrageous” remarks that insulted all the ladies of the nation.

“Why could not Amruta Fadnavis just get up and slap him there? This is my question,” an agitated Raut requested.

Kayande additionally attacked the Dy CM’s spouse demanding “she should have kicked him and walked out of the programme” however shockingly she was laughing, laughing, having fun with Ramdev’s remarks “as if he was doing an honour to womanhood”.

Calling Ramdev “a disciple of the jailed perverts like Asaram Bapu and Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh”, a fuming Tiwari mentioned the federal government ought to take suo moto motion in opposition to him for his brash phrases.

“I am asking Amruta Bittiya… Why did you keep quiet when you witnessed all this? Did you also get carried away after he started praising you? What’s your stand now for all your sisters… And why don’t you strongly condemn Ramdev Baba,” Tiwari requested gently.

“The whole country had seen years ago how Ramdev had worn a sari and ran at night to escape the police in Delhi…. How will he run now from the angry women? Will his relative and the crusading Amravati MP Navneet Kaur Rana care to react to (Ramdev’s) obnoxious behaviour,” demanded Kayande sharply.

Nationalist Congress Party’s Chief Spokesperson Mahesh Tapase mentioned Ramdev’s statements have been clearly ‘vulgar and anti-women’ and requested why the state authorities was protecting a deafening silence as a substitute of appearing on the difficulty that has enraged womenfolk throughout.

Social activist Trupti Desai mentioned she and the womenfolk have been “aghast” at Ramdev’s public assertion which signifies how his thoughts works in the direction of girls.

“We strongly denounce him. We want the state and national commissions for women to take suo moto note of it and initiate action, otherwise we shall storm his next programme,” Desai warned.

Demanding an unconditional apology, an irate Malikar additionally threatened to take a morcha at Ramdev’s subsequent yoga camp in Maharashtra the place they’d “catch him, tonsure him and chop off his beard” as a punishment.

Ramdev, 56, had performed a Yoga Science Camp & Women’s Meeting by way of his Patanjali Yoga Peeth and Mumbai Mahila Patanjali Yoga Samiti in Thane.

The bearded yoga grasp interacted with the ladies who couldn’t change from their yoga apparel to saris, which purportedly caught his eye and resulted within the verbal debacle quickly afterwards that snowballed into an enormous row.

Ramdev additionally urged the folks to stay completely happy and smiling, just like Amruta Fadnavis – as he glanced and complimented her – to dwell a protracted and wholesome life.