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Rahul Gandhi rejected patriarchal norms in Pune, telling women: "You belong to yourself."

Speaking at the 'Chhatron Ki Goonj' programme in Pune, Rahul Gandhi criticized patriarchal ideas he attributed to the Manusmriti. Quoting a passage stating that a woman remains under the authority of her father, husband, and later her son, he called such thinking a 'shame.'