Key Points
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar courted controversy on Tuesday with a bizarre speech on the importance of educating women..
The remarks delivered in the state Assembly have since drawn widespread condemnation from women MLAs and the National Commission for Women..
Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav however insisted that the statement should be taken as sex education..
The Janata Dal chief can be seen linking the importance of girls' education to population control and somewhat tangentially to marital congress..
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