Women don't need mobile phones, says BSP MP

Bahujan Samaj Party MP Rajpal Saini said children, specially girls, should not be given mobile phones.

"There is no need to give phones to women and children. It distracts them and is useless. Why do women need phones? My mother, wife and sister never had mobile phones. They survived without one," Saini said in a meeting in Muzaffarnagar.

Saini later clarified that said he meant that students of certain age should not be given mobile phones.

"What I am saying is that students should not be given mobile phones... It is the age to study, and mobile phones are a distraction," he said.

In July, a village panchayat in Bagpat district of Uttar Pradesh had banned love marriage, barred women below 40 years of age from going out for shopping and girls from using mobile phones.

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