The issue of one’s Marriage,
Can this create a National Furor?
Yes,
If you happen to be one Narendra Modi, the Gujarat Chef Minister and the BJP candidate for Prime Minister’s Post.
Mode admitted to having been married to one Yashoda Ben.
The comment by Karunanidhi, the DMK Supremo,speaking in an Election rally on 11th April at Chidambaram,
‘News about Modi’s has come just now,
I do not know what else will come out after he s elected”
is amusing.
Karunanidhi is a man who lives with two women,one, legally wedded wife, and another a ‘Thunaivi’, meaning Companion.
We have better words n English to describe,
He remarked at the time of the Birth of Kanimozh, his daughter through his ‘Thunavi’, on being asked about a child having been delivered in Isabella
Hospital, Chennai by PG.Karuthiruman Congress Leader in The Tamil Nadu Assembly, and who was the father of the child , as the lady who delivered
the Child, had stated that the Father’s name was Kanrunanidhi,and what was the relationship Karunanidhi had with the woman,
Karunanidhi replied,
“The Father of the child is Karunanidhi, Period”
He spends his days in both the houses,one of his wife and another?
To know more about Karunanidhi’s spotless character in respect of women, one would do well to read ,his one time close friend, Kannadasan’s Tamil
Book Vanavaasam, Life in Wilderness.
Thee he describes how and the gentleman cheated a call girl by not paying her!
This man now speaks of Modi!
Now Digvijay Singh comments on Modi.
Would he please comment on Sonia Gandhi‘s father having been a Nazi or the information yet unconfirmed as for as I am concerned, that Sonia Gandhi was an Escort?
Or that she smuggled out Indian Antiques?
Read them in the Links provided below.
The Congress’s Digvijaya Singh and the party’s pan-India machinery, women activists ranged against Modi, and all his staunch opponents have attacked Modi over this.
This round, it seems, will go to Modi.
“The self-confessed strong man doesn’t deserve any sympathy for inviting attacks, personal or political, but the facts of Modi’s child marriage is more of a tragedy than a scandal that his critics are portraying,” says Vikram Vakil, a Surat-based senior journalist who first scooped Modi’s marriage way back in 1993 for the Gujarati political weekly Abhiyaan I had founded.
Here is a defence of Modi that an apolitical friend, based in Ahmedabad, offered to Rediff.comafter the controversy erupted. He refused to be named in this column, and says he came to know about the marriage in 2003.
“By liberal standards, all individuals are free to have their own choice of partner. The family, parents or society can’t impose their choice on a teenage son or daughter as it happened in the Modi-Jashodaben case,” this friend of Modi says.
“If 17-year-old Modi wanted to get out of the marriage, which was imposed on him by a socially backward society and his family, it’s not only ethical but his right to walk out of the forced marriage. Feminists are against the obnoxious old idea of pativrata nari. In hitting out at Modi, they will be wary of endorsing Jashodaben‘s stand too,” argues Modi’s friend from Ahmedabad.
Vakil, otherwise a staunch critic of Modi, defends him on this count. “Modi’s marriage was an accident of destiny. It was a kind of a Shakespearean tragedy where neither the man nor woman can be blamed.
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