Uttar Pradesh minister Manohar Lala Panth
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Lucknow: People addicted to alcohol are usually sent to rehab centres for treatment but an Uttar Pradesh minister has prescribed an altogether different line of therapy to treat the alcoholics.
The minister has advised the women to hit their husbands with sticks if they did not stop drinking.
Going a step further, the minister gave his own example to substantiate his claim. ‘’I was addicted to alcohol. My wife once hit me with sticks when I returned home in an inebriated condition. I stopped drinking since then,’’ UP minister of labour and employment Manohar Lala Panth said.
Addressing a gathering of women at Hasera village in the state’s Lalitpur district on Saturday, Panth asked them to always keep sticks with them to deal with drunkard husbands.
‘’Hit them with sticks and throw them out of the house. they will stop drinking after that,’’ the minister told the gathering.
It was not immediately clear if the women heeded the minister’s advice.
Panth was in the news earlier also when a video purportedly showed him dancing on a popular Bollywood song at a wedding event. He had then said that he danced after the people requested him to do so.