Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor slammed Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat in a tweet on Monday after she found his comments on divorce "regressive". While addressing RSS workers in Ahmedabad on February 16, Bhagwat said that divorce cases are more prevalent in "educated and affluent" families at the moment as education and affluence bring arrogance along, which result in families falling apart. Bhagwat's comments enraged Sonam as she lashed out at the RSS chief in her tweet and also shared a news clipping of his remarks. "Which sane man speaks like this? Regressive foolish statements," she said in her post.
"Nowadays the number of divorce cases have increased a lot. People fight over trifle issues. The cases of divorce are more in educated and affluent families, because with education and affluence comes arrogance, as a result of which families fall apart. The society also falls apart because society is also a family," Bhagwat was quoted as saying in a statement issued by the RSS, news agency PTI reports. Bhagwat, in fact, also said that a Hindu society should be "virtuous and organised", adding that "when we say society, it is not only men. A society is the one which gets its identity due to its sense of belonging."