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Under attack for his controversial ‘sexist’ comment on Women’s Reservation Bill,Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Thursday justified his remark that quota for women would help only those belonging to elite families whom youths would whistle at.
At a meeting of party workers at the SP headquarters here,Yadav asserted that his statement was not a slip of tongue but was made after evaluating all aspects so as to initiate a debate on the issue.
The SP chief has drawn flak from women’s groups and political parties for his remark that only women belonging to affluent class including those from families of industrialists and bureaucrats would get the benefit of the bill.
“I don’t like to say this,but they would be the women youth would whistle at,” Yadav had said here on Tuesday at a function to mark Ram Manohar Lohia’s birth centenary.
