In no time after deputy chairman’s address, she raised a strong objection to “being identified with her husband’s name”.
“Sir, sirf Jaya Bachchan bolte to kaafi hojata (Saying only Jaya Bachchan would have sufficed),” the Samajwadi leader said.
Laughing at the remark, Harivansh Narayan Singh, who was in chair at that time said, “Your full name was written here, I just repeated the same.”
“Ye jo hain kuch naya tarika hain ki mahilaayen apni pati ke naam se jaani jaye. Unka koi astitva nahi. Unki koi upalabdh hi nahi hain, apne mein aur astitva nahi hain. (This is a new method that the women will be known by the names of their husbands, they do not have any identity of their own),” Bachchan said.
“They (Women) do not have any achievement of their own, they do not haqve any identity of your own,” she said.
Singh, however, tried to calm the situation by saying, “You have many achievements.”
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Jaya Amitabh Bachchan | Short Duration Discussion on the recent tragic incident of death of students
Bachchan, after this, continued her speech on the recent deaths of three students at a Delhi coaching centre. She asked political parties to rise above petty politics over such matters.
After Nirbhaya incident, she said, it’s the first time she was witnessing such a heated discussion over an issue.
Meanwhile, five people were sent to 14-day judicial custody on Monday in the case.
Senior police officials said the coaching centre’s basement got flooded mainly because the civic authority failed to clear the roadside drain before the onset of Monsoon and there was no provision for draining out water at the basement where a library was running illegally.
The IAS aspirants who died in the incident have been identified as Shreya Yadav (25) of Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, Tanya Soni (25) from Telangana and Nevin Delvin (24) from Ernakulam in Kerala.