"Be It Bikini Or Hijab...": Trinamool's Nussrat Jahan On 'Pathaan' Row

"They have a problem with everything. They have a problem with women wearing hijab. They have a problem with women wearing bikini," Trinamool Congress MP Nussrat Jahan said on the 'Pathaan' row

Trinamool Congress MP Nussrat Jahan has strongly condemned comments by some BJP leaders on actor Deepika Padukone for wearing an orange outfit in a song of the Shah Rukh Khan starrer 'Pathaan'.

"It is not about anybody's ideology. It is about one party in power trying to create such a picture in a set of people. So what they are doing is, anything that is spiritual, religious are endorsed well and are highly appreciated. And now they start talking about culture, women wearing bikini," Ms Jahan told NDTV today.

"They have a problem with everything. They have a problem with women wearing hijab. They have a problem with women wearing bikini. It is them who are telling the new-age women of India what to wear," Ms Jahan said.

"They are trying to command our lives by telling us what to wear, what to eat, how we should talk, how we should walk, what we should learn in school, what we should watch on TV…we are completely directed in this so-called new, evolved India. It is so scary. I fear that in the long run, I do not know where it would take all of us," the Trinamool MP told NDTV.