Geeta Phogat has a response on Haryana Ad which says Women In Veil are its Pride

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A Haryana government advertisement promoting ghoonghat, or veil, for its women has triggered a backlash against the Manohar Lal Khattar government for what the congress called, was the BJP-led governments "regressive and parochial mentality".

Medal winning wrestler from the state, Geeta Phogat also spoke out of the mindset that doesn't let girls come out of the veil.

A back page photograph in this magazine March edition, which had a smiling face of Mr Khattar on the cover page, shows a rural women in a veil. an accompanying message says  women behind veil, were Haryana's identity, its pride.

"The fact remains the regressive and parochial mentality" lies in the thought process of BJP their government in Haryana. Does the Manohar Lal Khattar government not realise that Haryana's women have not brought laurels to the state but in the country," Congress's Randeep Surjewala.

Back in 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had traveled to Haryana's Panipat district to launch the Beti Padhao campaign to educate the girl child in a state that has animng the country's worst sex ratio. But the recent issue of the sate government's Krishi Samvad ( Dialogue with Farmers) magazine targeted at educating its farmers about best practices is advocating quite the reserve.

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