Sexist questioning?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 01/12/2012

Rajdeep Sardesai's constant suggestion to Shweta Bhatt, wife of suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt who has filed her nomination against the Gujarat CM Narendra Modi on a Congress ticket, that she was a 'proxy candidate' for her husband, clearly offended Ms Bhatt. She finally unmiked herself and walked out of the discussion. " I am leaving your programme Rajdeep because I think you are biased and do not know how to respect women" she said. Earlier he had tried to provoke her saying ,if she lost against Modi, would she go back to being a 'housewife'. "You are also married Rajdeep, does your wife listen to everything you say?" she challenged him. The anchor avoided the question.

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