The Karnataka MLA who was trolled for "short" dress

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A day before the recent election in Karnataka, her political rivals allegedly released her social media photos online to “shame” her. This was her response…

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00:00I wear dresses or I wear pants.

00:11I believe in fitness or I enjoy with my friends or with my family or I dance with my daughter.

00:17You know, it's all out there.

00:28As politicians give access to many more people, people reach out to us for a whole lot of

00:33things.

00:34So yeah, I mean, and since you are only that many female politicians, it just just so happens

00:41that you know, you get targeted or it becomes so much more apparent when you get targeted.

00:54I firmly believe in having freedom.

00:58I'm an independent person.

01:01So I have just kept my, you know, entire lifestyle out open there.

01:21There's nothing for me to be ashamed of.

01:24I'm as normal as any other human being can get.

01:31So my mother's been in politics forever, like even before I was born.

01:34So she's contested elections eight times.

01:38So yeah, I will easily be called a nepo kid.

01:53I wanted to do that was impactful.

01:55That was, you know, that, you know, that would affect a whole lot of lives.

02:01And I felt politics was that, you know, a channel.

02:12This is my style.

02:13This is how I am.

02:14Here it is.

02:15You know, you've done it.

02:16Now let me give you a reply back.

02:18I'm using my own photographs and I'm extremely proud about it.

02:26I knew this is one of the easiest things that anybody ends up doing to demoralize you or,

02:32you know, sort of probably think that you will have a setback.

02:39At the end of the day, you need to break some glass ceiling, right?

02:42You need to break some stereotypes just because, you know, you continued something for ages.

02:48That doesn't mean you need to, you know, tow the same line.

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