Bachelor Men Ask For Brides, Points At Poor Gender Ratio In Maharashtra

A group of eligible bachelors from Solapur in Maharashtra held a march wearing bridegroom outfits and riding on a horse and reached the District Collector's office to submit a memorandum to create awareness about the poor male-female ratio in the state.

The glaring gender discrimination in India has to be taken seriously now. Women face gendered prejudices even before they are born with practices like female foeticide through the early determination of sex. This discrimination continues throughout their lives when they face a lack of opportunities, no place to voice their opinion, fit into societal roles and also face gendered crime along with victim blaming.

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Bachelor Men Ask For Brides In Maharashtra

On Wednesday, a bridegroom morcha was organised which was comprised of men dressed in wedding attires, riding on horseback and accompanied by drummers like a 'band-baja' at weddings. The objective of this morcha was to submit a memorandum to the district collector's office in Solapur in order to seek stricter rules and vigilance over the implementation of the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act (PCPNDT Act) which would improve the male-female ratio in the state of Maharashtra.

This unusual act was done to catch the attention of the people for such an alarming issue of gender ratio which in the said state is 889 females to every 1000 males, according to the reports.

The men have also demanded to find, brides, for them in marriage from the state government as they claim to not find prospective matches due to the parity in numbers of the two genders.

This march was organized by Jyoti Kranti Parishad and its founder Ramesh Baraskar told the media, "People may mock this morcha, but the grim reality is that youths of marriageable age are not getting brides just because the male-female ratio is skewed in the state". Baraskar continued by saying, "This inequality exists because of female foeticide and the government is responsible for this disparity".

This bizarre turn of events shows that the age-old practice of killing the girl child has several repercussions. Women have been voicing their cause for years together but people still fail to see how it affects everyone and in the 21st century holds no logic to keep doing it. Women are not less competent than men.