"Don't give mobile phones to girls"

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Rajya Sabha MP Rajpal Singh Saini has landed in a controversy following his statement, at a public meeting in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh (UP), that woman and children, particularly girls, should not be given mobile phones because it "only invites trouble."

Though Saini blamed the media for twisting his statement after it was aired and drew flak from all quarters, the video footage shows Saini saying that he has been asking people in all his public interactions not to allow girls, women and children use mobile phone. Recently, he said that he had met a father of a girl who was kidnapped. He came to know that the father had given a mobile phone to the girl.


Saini said that he told the father that giving cell phones to girls only invites trouble. The BSP MPsaid, "I exhort people in every public interaction that our mothers and sisters did not have mobile phones but did they die because of it." Saini said that his own mother, wife, sister and daughter never used cell phones and all were doing well in life. He said that men could allow their mobile phones to be used by children, girls and women in the house in case they need to talk to somebody on an important issue.