Congress stabs Patil, welcomes dance bar order
Shubhangi Khapre
Saturday, April 15, 2006 00:50 IST
MUMBAI: The Congress is not very enthusiastic about Deputy Chief Minister and Home Minister RR Patil’s decision to challenge the dance bar verdict in the Supreme Court.
Welcoming the Bombay High Court decision, the alliance partner in the Democratic Front government on Friday said it would be very difficult for the government to explain how dancing in a bar was morally unethical than performing in a five-star hotel.
Congress spokesperson Sanjay Nirupam said, “On behalf of the Congress party I welcome the verdict on dance bar. We have always maintained that the government took a decision in haste without providing any alternative source of livelihood to thousands of workers.”
Patil has maintained that the government’s decision to ban dance bars was taken through political consensus and the Bill was passed in the state Assembly.
Congress leader Hussain Dalwai said, “When Patil took the decision to ban dance bars, he had a limited agenda. His concern was limited to the rich and spoilt children mainly from the cash-rich western Maharashtra, who splurged money, got into all wrong acts and invited AIDS. The home minister never gave a thought to the rehabilitation of thousands of women who depended on dance bars to earn their bread and run their families.”
Another senior Congress MLA who voted in favour of the ban in the Assembly said,
“In principle, nobody can support dance bars. But how can the state government involve in selective moral policing? If a dance bar is unethical and obscene, then what about belly dancing in five-star hotels? The government should apply law uniformly to all, as indicated by the HC.”
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Dance Bars: Let the Music Play
A lot have been said and lot of been showed on all the TV channels, be it Star News, CNN-IBN or AAZ TAK or NDTV. There have been common sentiments among all the media channels that let the dance bars continue.
Dance Bars, which has been the pulse of Mumbai nightlife, an employment for lakhs of bar girls, waiters, a place for some easy money for the cops, a good amount of revenue for the government and a sore for the Maharashtra government ; more importantly for few of the ministers.
I think we as Indians are growing up and don’t need moral policing from people who themselves are corrupt and characterless. Before applying ban to these dance bars, they should stop the high class sex racket breeding in the shining suites of five star hotels and cities up market discos. There have been arguments by the government that these bars are more of brothel. I ask that is the government such impotent that they can’t identify the bars which are acting as brothels and cancel their license. The government should understand that not all dance bars, hotels, discos act as brothels. The solution is to strictly identify those places and put a ban on them.
The government never thought about rehabilitating these bar girls, yes they did gave statement once or two but that was more of because of public pressure. Lately our highest place of justice have been giving some good decision like re-trial in Jessica lal case , but the decision of continued ban on dance bar is bit disappointing. Well, the case may be that the Court is taking its own time to look into the matter in an intricate manner, before lifting up the ban.
At last, I want to say that I am not advocating the dance bars, but I am being practical and sensitive to the whole issues. The government should make a complete rehabilitation programme for bar girls before even thinking of putting a lock on dance bars.
Grow up Guys, and Let the Music Play!
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