PM shares the stage with Madhuri for the 'Save daughters' campaign

January 22, 2015 17:28

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today shared the stage Madhuri Dixit and launched the 'beti bachao beti padhao (save daughter, educate daughter)' scheme in Haryana, a state with one of the poorest sex ratios.

Dixit is the brand ambassador of the scheme.

Modi slammed doctors indulging in female foeticide, saying their "sin" was a "betrayal" against societywith said the discrimination against girls reflects "mental illness" and displays a mindset worse than that in the 18th century.

In a hard-hitting speech, he said, "we cannot call ourselves citizens of 21st century by practising such a crime and we were by our mindset belonged to 18th century when daughters were killed soon after they were born."

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