Kumar while emphasising importance of education among women to control population, put forward a vivid description in state assembly of how an educated woman can restrain her husband during sexual intercourse
New Delhi, Nov 7: The BJP on Tuesday flayed Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for his remarks on the importance of women’s education to control the population calling those “most misogynistic, vulgar and patriarchal”, and demanded his resignation.
The Bihar chief minister, while emphasising the importance of education among women to control the population, put forward a vivid description in the state assembly of how an educated woman can restrain her husband during sexual intercourse. “The husband’s acts led to more births. However, with education, a woman knows how to restrain him… this is the reason the numbers (of births) are coming down,” Kumar said in a rustic style.
Reacting sharply, Union Minister and a senior BJP leader from Bihar Ashwini Kumar Choubey said Kumar has tarnished the dignity and decorum of democracy with his remarks.
“It is very shameful to make such a statement in the Assembly. It seems he is mentally ill,” Choubey said, adding, “He should resign and immediately consult a doctor.” Lashing out at Kumar for his remarks, BJP national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla said,
“The language used by Nitish Kumar inside the assembly is most vulgar, indecent, most misogynistic, sexist and patriarchal.” “This is the mindset of the chief minister of Bihar… Kumar has become a bekabu babu from shushan babu. Imagine what will be the plight of women of Bihar if such a language is spoken in the Bihar assembly,” he added.
Poonawalla demanded that the chief minister step down. “Nitish Kumar has no moral authority to continue as chief minister after insulting 40 per cent of the population of the county. If he has any integrity, he must step down,” he said, adding that women of this country will never forgive Kumar after his remarks.
“Kumar’s most despicable, disgusting, atrocious, obnoxious and anti-women comments only show the impact of the influence of the RJD on him,” he charged.
The BJP spokesperson also took on the Congress and other members of the INDIA block of opposition parties and questioned their silence over the Bihar chief minister’s comments.
NCW condemns Nitish Kumar’s remark
The National Commission for Women (NCW) on Tuesday said it “vehemently condemns” Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s remarks in the Assembly on the importance of women’s education to control the population and demanded his apology.
The NCW said it “vehemently condemns the recent statements made by Kumar in the Vidhan Sabha.
“Such remarks are not only regressive but also egregiously insensitive to women’s rights and choices. Bihar’s chief minister should issue an apology to women across the country for these deeply offensive remarks,” NCW said on X.
The commission’s chairperson Rekha Sharma demanded an unequivocal apology from the Bihar chief minister.
“On behalf of every woman in this country, as the chairperson of the National Commission for Women, I demand an immediate and unequivocal apology from Chief Minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar.
“His crass remarks in the Vidhan Sabha are an affront to the dignity and respect that every woman deserves,” she said on X.
Sharma said such “derogatory and cheap language used during his speech is a dark stain on our society”. “If a leader can make such comments so openly in a democracy, one can only imagine the horror the state must be enduring under his leadership,” she said in the post. (PTI)