Women burn effigy of Aniruddhacharya in Varanasi

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Hundreds of women from the Shankar Sena Mahila Wing marched in Varanasi, burning effigies and demanding action against religious preacher Aniruddhacharya.

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00:00Aniruddha Chara's own words were written all over the effigy these women from Shankar Sina Mahila

00:06Wing brought to Varanasi streets. Hundreds protested demanding he apologize and faced the law.

00:15Aniruddha Chara reportedly known for making insulting remarks about women often blames

00:20live-in relationships for destroying character. Yet when footage of these women protesting goes

00:24viral, some men turn it into an attack on the protesters themselves. According to Cambridge

00:29studies, this is exactly what happens when women challenge patriarchal norms, their morality

00:33is questioned, their protest undermined, while the offender faces little scrutiny.

00:45These are the women who even took formal legal steps, filing a memorandum under the Child Marriage

00:49Act and for child sexual harassment, pointing to Aniruddha Chara's statements promoting child

00:53marriage. And still, the conversation online focused on shaming them, not him.

00:59The very misogyny they were marching against is now being hurled back at them.

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