"The Poor Sell Their Daughters To Pay Off Cops": Bhopal MP's Self-Goal
NDTV
Congress has demanded that Pragya Singh Thakur should reveal who these children are being sold to and who the buyers are.
Bhopal MP Pragya Singh Thakur, known for regularly courting controversy, has yet again put the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led government of Madhya Pradesh in the dock by claiming that poor people in three of the villages she has adopted are forced to sell their daughters to pay off cops.
Speaking at an event organised by traders' body Bhartiya Udyog Vyapar Mandal on Saturday, she said she has adopted three villages where people are forced to even sell their children to free those caught selling illicit liquor for a living.
"The people in those villages are poor. They make and sell raw liquor. In such a situation, when the police catch them, they sell their daughters, give money to the police and rescue their people," she said.
MPs adopt a village every year and boost developmental work to turn them into model villages.
