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Union women and child development minister Smriti Irani at the News18 Rising Bharat Summit 2024. (Image/News18)
The Gandhi family looted the country by clicking pictures and smiling. Voting is a big responsibility, Smriti Irani told Bengaluru women.
Smriti Irani, a Union minister and a former actor who rose to fame with the daily soap ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi‘, said that ‘saas-bahu‘ serials are far from realities of life, and female voters need to pay attention to important political issues if they want women to be taken seriously in politics. “Casting your vote is a heavy responsibility, it is not a game of any TV serial,” she added.
“The women who understand this can have a successful social and political life. The Gandhi family looted the country by clicking pictures and smiling. Voting is a big responsibility,” she further said. Irani’s statements came on Friday during her interaction with businessmen in Karnataka’s Bengaluru.
#WATCH | Bengaluru, Karnataka: During her interaction with businessmen, Union Minister Smriti Irani says, “I request all the women that if we want everyone to take women seriously in politics, then we have to pay attention to important political issues. ‘Saas-Bahu’ serials are… pic.twitter.com/lUQB4CiRFY— ANI (@ANI) April 6, 2024
Irani is the Women and Child Development, and Minority Affairs Minister. She had defeated Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in this former stronghold of the Gandhis in the 2019 Lok Sabha election.