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  Gehlot calls for campaign against women's 'parda' custom

  India | Dec 04, 2019, 06:40 PM IST

  "This is a scientific era, age of mobiles where world can be reached out through the cellphone, and in this situation, limiting a women to veiled world is not justified," he said.

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  Mulayam Singh denounces veil system, says it's an evil tradition

  National | Nov 17, 2014, 07:49 PM IST

  Lucknow: Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav today kicked up a controversy by dubbing the practice of "purdah" (veil) as an "evil tradition", saying it should be scrapped as it hindered progress of women."This system