Madhya Pradesh MP presents bats to new brides

Bhopal, May 1: Here is a mass wedding of 700 couple has faced an awkward situation here on Saturday.

While coming to the matter, The Madhya Pradesh minister Gopal Bhargava had an unusual gift for nearly 700 new brides - a 'mogri' or a wooden bat, traditionally used to wash clothes.

Gifting the bats at a mass marriage ceremony on Saturday, the minister instructed the brides to use it on husbands if they become alcoholics or harass them, refusing to mend ways.

The minister also supervised the grooms to pledging non-consumption of sedatives of any kind in their lives.



He ordered 10,000 bats to be gifted to women "suffering at the hands of their alcoholic husbands". Each 'mogri' is engraved with caption 'sharabiyon ke sutara hetu bhent, police nahi bolegi' (gift for beating drunkards, police will not intervene).

Mass wedding ceremonies have been considered to play an important role in consolidating voters in favour of Bharatiya Janta Party government.Recently the government announced that newly wed brides will be gifted a smartphone under the Scheme.