Summary:
Bhopal, Nov 28 (PTI) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday said he had warned a ministerial colleague who is in the eye of a storm for making a controversial statement about "upper caste women".
Tribal leader and minister Bisahulal Singh had kicked up a storm while speaking about women and their chores in the backdrop of societal strata while addressing a gathering in Anuppur district on Wednesday.
"Big people like Thakur, Thakar and some other big people keep their women confined to homes and don"t let them go out," while "women (from the lower strata of society) in our villages work in the fields and also do household chores", he had said.
"Pull out the women of big people - Thakur from their homes.
Will this not make them march ahead" he had questioned.
In a statement issued on Sunday, CM Chouhan said, "I had just called Bisahulal Singh ji.