BJP Legal Advisor Issues Notice To Designer Sabyasachi Over Mangalsutra Ad
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The BJPlegal advisor asked fashion designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee to take back the advertisement posted on social media and to apologise to people.
A BJP legal advisor on Saturday issued a legal notice to the fashion designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee for using "semi-naked models" for a Mangalsutra collection advertisement and hurting religious sentiments.
Advocate Ashutosh Dubey, legal advisor of BJP-Maharashtra Palghar district, in his notice stated that the advertisement is totally outrageous to the entire Hindu community as well as Hindu Marriage and asked to take off the advertisement within 15 days.
"I say that in your promotional social media posts featuring models posing solo or in intimate positions with others. In one picture, a female model is seen wearing a black brassiere and Sabyasachi's mangalsutra as her head rests on a shirtless male model is totally outrageous to the entire Hindu community as well as Hindu Marriage," Mr Dubey's notice read.
The legal advisor to BJP further in the notice said, "The Mangalsutra symbolises that the bride and groom will be mates for life until death separates them and you are exhibiting the "Mangalsutra" in an obscene way is outrageous and baseless."
