In an election rally, while campaigning for the Maharashtra District Council elections in Solapur district, BJP supported independent Member of Legislative Council (MLC) Prashant Paricharak made a controversial comment regarding soldiers serving in the line of duty.<\/p>\n
The approximate translation of his speech is as follows:<\/p>\n
“Soldier is at border, his wife gets pregnant at home. He get a letter than you are a Dad and a son is born. He hasn’t gone home since a year (audience laughs). Soldier distributes sweets. Other soldiers ask, what happened? He says, I have a son. That is the way Politics is”<\/em><\/p>\n This statement suggesting that army wives get pregnant in absence of their partners created a huge outrage on social media and the MLC had to apologise for his statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In an election rally, while campaigning for the Maharashtra District Council elections in Solapur district, BJP supported independent Member of Legislative Council (MLC) Prashant Paricharak made a controversial comment regarding soldiers serving in the line of duty. The approximate translation of his speech is as follows: “Soldier is at border, his wife gets pregnant at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[],"coauthors":[120],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","post_format-post-format-video","fact_checks_claim_type-economics"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"\n