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‘Don’t Crowd Vrindavan’: BJP leader Hema Malini’s Comment Sparks controversy

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Mathura: Another Bharatiya Janata Party leader, actor-turned-politician Hema Malini, has now stoked a controversy with her statements. The BJP MP from Mathura said that widows from Bengal and Bihar should not crowd the holy city and should stay in their own states instead.

“If they (widows) are not from here then there is no need for them to come here from other states. There are many famous temples in Bengal and Bihar too, so widows who are from Bengal should stay in Bengal and those from Bihar should stay there,” the 65-year-old Lok Sabha BJP MP said.

On a visit to her parliamentary constituency Mathura, of which Vrindavan is a part, she said there are already 40,000 widows in Vrindavan and there was no room to accommodate more. “There are 40,000 widows in Vrindavan. I think there is no more place in the city. A large population is coming from Bengal… that’s not right. Why don’t they stay in Bengal? There are nice temples there. The same is true for those from Bihar,” she said.

The responsibility of looking after widows should be of states from where they hail, she said. Malini, who won the Lok Sabha seat from Mathura in the recent elections with a big margin, said she would speak to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and others on the issue.

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