Jaglan, who organised an ‘anti-female foeticide Mahapanchayat' in Bibipoor a few years ago and is now a proud father of two girls, said, “There are 7,000 villages in the state and in every village on an average, at present, 50 boys are unmarried. It means, around 3,50,000 males are without life partners.”
In 2009, the female foeticide issue was raised by a group of youths here who took out a march, but it failed to achieve the desired results.
According to Jaglan, “Since 2009, the problem has grown manifold.”
In Bibipoor village, at the Chaupal, a huge poster welcomes people with a message: “Netaji janiye, Haryana main kunwaron ka ganit (Netaji have a look at the data of unmarried youth in the state).”
The poster gives a glimpse of the total population of the state, the male and female ratios and the number of unmarried youth.
In the Sonipat Lok Sabha seat, under which the assembly constituency of Jind comes, Jagbir Singh Malik of Congress, BJP's Ramesh Chander, Padam Singh from Indian National Lok Dal and Jai Singh from AAP are in the fray.
Avivahit Purush Sangthan, which has a presence on social networking sites like Facebook and also Whatsapp, has attracted lots of unmarried males to its fold, Jaglan claimed. According to theatre personality Naresh Prerna,
“No major political party has included this issue (female foeticide) in their poll agenda and there is total lack of any honest movement at the grassroots level.”
Although Left parties have shown some seriousness, but their base is very limited in the state, Prerna said.
