Indian brides given wooden paddles to hit drunken, abusive husbands by leading politician

  The Independent Newspaper has reported that Gopal Bargave (a minister in the state of Madhya Pradesh in india) has handed out the paddles, traditionally used to get dirt out of clothes in old-fashioned laundries, to around 700 brides at a mass wedding. Gopal Bargava says he wants to draw attention to the problems of domestic violence in India with …