New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Naresh Balyan is not in trouble over his remarks on Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Hema Malini. The Uttam Nagar MLA was visiting his constituency when during a live, he said that roads in the area will soon have smooth roads like “Heam Malini’s cheeks”.
Now, the former chairperson of the National Commission of Women (NCW) slammed the AAP MLA for his "misogynist" statement.
"It is very unfortunate that leaders, especially those from the INDI bloc, are giving misogynist and sexist remarks in different parts of the country. The same kind of remarks were given by Lalu (Prasad Yadav) around 40 years ago. These people call themselves leaders, but I think people should now, especially during elections, teach them a lesson that such kind of people, let alone leaders, are unacceptable in society," Rekha Sharma said, quoted ANI.
Urging the Aam Aadmi Party to take strict action against its party MLA, Sharma said that such people should be "thrown out of the system"."I will now appeal to the leader of AAP that these kinds of people should be thrown out of the system.
Former Chairperson of the Delhi Commission of Women, Swati Maliwal took to X and shared the video of Balyan in which he is seen making the alleged remark. She questioned that the MLA was sleeping for 10 years when people were using the dilapidated roads.
"Delhi's Uttam Nagar MLA Naresh Balyan says that "we will make the roads like Hema Malini's cheeks"! No amount of condemnation of this anti-women statement is enough. This man has been sleeping for the entire ten years due to which the roads of Uttam Nagar are in a dilapidated condition!" the former AAP leader said.
"By not working even today, he is only demonstrating his poor thinking. Such a cheap thinking that considers women as objects has no place in the society. @ArvindKejriwal ji is appealed to take immediate action against this person with anti-women thinking," Malwai, a Rajya Sabha MP, said in her post.