Take panties, thanks for saris, city campaigners tell Sri Ram Sene chief

Pune has got on the ‘Pink Chaddi Campaign’ with the city youth collecting around 100 pink panties getting and awaiting with glee the return gesture — pink saris, that have been promised by Sri Ram Sene chief Pramod Mutalik.

Mutalik told The Indian Express that he did not appreciate the campaign being run against him. “This way of protesting my ideology by sending me underwear is exactly the vikruti that we are trying to curb. I am sure the parents of these campaigners are hanging their heads in shame because this is not Indian culture. If they had to oppose something, they could have talked it out with us. This is not the way of doing it,” he said.

Mutalik justified his decision to gift pink saris: “Traditionally, Indian women have been wearing saris and by donating pink saris, we are trying to drive in that culture to these campaigners,” he said.

The city unit of Shiv Sena is not unduly worried about being overshadowed by the Sene. The Sena’s city chief Nana Wadekar said the Sene could never overshadow the Sena. “Although we are happy that other parties are opposing Valentine’s Day, we will not be supporting them,” he said.

The pink chaddi campaigners have gleefully agreed to wear the saris Mutalik sends them ‘We greatly appreciate this and will gladly wear the pink saris. We hope he continues to choose similar, non-violent methods to get his point across, just as we have chosen to be non-violent and loving in response to the brutality of the attacks (like the one against women at the Mangalore pub),” a blog posting said.

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