Condoms are against family values and lingerie must be kept under wraps. The moral police is out in Bhopal tearing down posters, knocking down displays and decorously offering clothes to show window mannequins that turned up in undergarments.
Members of the Bajrang Dal, affiliated to the state's ruling BJP, tore down condom ads saying they were against family values and ordered shopkeepers and traders dealing in lingerie to "not hang lingerie in public."(NDTV photo)
Marching down the New Market area in the city, the activists raised slogans and issued an ultimatum to the shopkeepers, giving them five days to comply or watch their wares go up in flames in a bonfire.(NDTV photo)
Manch leader Chandra Shekhar warned that undergarments must be boxed and kept away. Even condom ads were torn down for “being against family values”.(NDTV photo)
The activists were apparently inspired by Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who had ordered the removal of the poster of a local spa in front of a girls college that showed a semi-clad woman in a chocolate bowl. (NDTV photo)
While moving around the New Market area, the activists pulled down a hoarding advertising a coffee-flavoured condom at the City Centre. They also asked theatre owners not to put-up posters of film stars in "offensive" clothes and postures. (NDTV photo)
"Your mannequins should wear sarees, not underwear. From now on, keep all undergarments inside. Show it to the customer when he or she asks for it," warned the Manch district-level leader Chandra Shekhar.(NDTV photo)
