India: You want my vote? Get me a bride!!!

Haryana’s voters are waiting with garlands but not for the netas knocking at their doors.

The garlands are for the bahus they expect the politicians to find for them — or their unmarried sons or brothers — if they want their votes.

Cheap rice and free TV sets may satisfy others but Haryana, with its growing army of bachelors, wants a poll gift that lasts a lifetime. Getting a bride is becoming tougher by the day in the state, thanks to its skewed sex ratio of 861 females to 1,000 males —- fuelled by female foeticide —and a high unemployment rate.

So, the strongest slogan ahead of the October 13 Assembly elections is coming not from the political parties but from the voters. It goes: “Bahu do, vote lo (give us brides to get our votes).” More...

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