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I know there is another thread on this but I think some facts need to be placed on the table, There has been a lot of talk about equality between the sexes: Why not Jagya? Why should it always be Anandhi? Don't we ask for equality etc etc? Also, why are A supporters jealous to see one good track for Jagya?
The point is not about a good track for Jagya. His hospital has featured in every second episode relating to badi haveli. It has been the centre of action from births, deaths, injuries, pasha , ganga, gehna, name it and J has been there in all these tracks. So to say that politics is his only good track is factually inaccurate.
Now I come to the main point. Theeps, (hope I can call you that) and Alchemist,
I address this especially to you as I found that you had grasped the point of why Anandi and not Jagya needed to be in politics.
Women's representation in politics in this country is abysmal. In 1999, 49 out of 543 winners in the Lok Sabha were women; in 2004, 45 women won for the same number of overall seats. In 2009, the figure went up to 59, just over 10 per cent. Is this the great equality we are taking about?
Political parties do not like to field women even though their winnability ratio is higher than that of the male candidates. This is to ensure complete and unquestioned male stranglehold over power politics. Women do not get even nominated, forget winning, no matter how good they are,
This is the reason the Women's Reservation Bill was introduced. But predictably the male politicians ganged up against it, going to the extent of using physical force in Parliament and tearing up the bill in the Lok Sabha. Now it is stuck in the Upper House.
In this environment, what does BV do? It sidelines its shining, tried and tested female protagonist in favour of the son of her former in-laws. This son mentally tortured her resulting in their painful separation.
WoW! Can you get better than this?
BV gives him the ticket on the pretext that he has turned into gold. Which he may have but I think it is unfair to bestow everything on him, the best equipped hospital, medical degrees and now a career as a politician forgetting his main calling while A serves some vagabond, whimsical bua saas.
There cannot be a bigger travesty than this and to say that it doesn't matter who wins, both are good etc simply does not wash given the anti-women environment in which we are living. BV could have risen above the rut, and shown the way forward. Instead it asks the ditched former wife to campaign for her ex and revel and glory in a victory gifted to him by her.
I'm not surprised the bua saas -- ok that is going to be A's lot, no matter how much we protest -- asked her if J was her brother. Anyone would do that, no? Ansh are great -- and I love them for this --that is why this relationship has become possible , Otherwise it is absurd for A to go to Jaitser to campaign for J. The argument that the A-Heth Singh clash will lead to fireworks which is enough for us to be happy to be about is tragic and very very sad.
BV which does not otherwise care about reality -- an MLA constituency is not just a village -- suddenly becomes realistic in showing male supremacy over females. Realistic treatment is good when they show violence against women which is portrayed as wrong, and fought against. Not when a female patriarch gleefully presents her pota as the candidate. And the more suitable female candidate claps from the sidelines. If there is a message in this it is a wrong message.
The election is happening in Jaitser not in Udaipur so she could not contest. Really? That is a load of nonsense. Assembly elections happen across the state unless this is a by-election featuring just one constituency. So Udaipur would have its elections too. So why not create opportunities for her to enter politics in U instead of thrusting a bua saas on her?
I didn't mean to write this but just couldn't help myself.
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