The mentioned check was performed earlier than the beneficiaries have been to participate in a mass wedding ceremony in a city within the Dindori district Saturday. Local MLA Omkar Singh Markam mentioned he obtained data that the ladies have been put by a being pregnant check. Markam advised The Indian Express, “I have information that four women who could not pass this test were not given Rs 51,000 as a benefit under the scheme. This is a violation of their basic rights and an invasion of their privacy. I will raise this issue before the chief minister as well as the prime minister.”

Markam added, “The government must clarify if there are any laws for such pregnancy tests.”

Meanwhile, BJP district chief Avadh Raj Bilaiya mentioned in a video: “Under the Mukhyamantri Kanyadan Yojana, a medical test is done to check girls’ fitness. In our district, there are many problems like sickle cell anemia… So, generally, all kinds of tests are done. Last time, we found that many women were already married… Unfortunately, this time when the test was done, a few women were found pregnant and, in such a situation, we assumed they were married and we did not allow them to marry.”

Bilaiya additional mentioned: “There is no question of hurting the asmita (pride) of women. The doctors are conducting the tests and based on past experiences, where couples were found already married, such preventive steps were taken. Politics is being played. This scheme is for poor women and such types of politics must not be done. Our mission is very clear, we want to help poor women. About 230 women got married and we all took part in the ceremony.”

Defending the administration, Dindori collector Vikas Mishra advised PTI that directives have been issued through the mass marriage occasion for the detection of sickle cell ailment.

“During the medical examination, some brides spoke of period issues after which doctors at the site took a decision to conduct pregnancy tests on those with such complaints,” Mishra mentioned.

“There was no directive from the administration to conduct pregnancy tests. The four women who were found to be pregnant were not allowed to take part in the mass marriage,” he added.

Senior Congress chief and former chief minister Kamal Nath took to social media to boost the problem. He tweeted, “In Dindori, the information of getting being pregnant checks accomplished for greater than 200 daughters has come to the fore in mass marriages to be performed beneath Mukhyamantri Kanyadan Yojana. I need to know from the Chief Minister whether or not this information is true? If this information is true, then on whose orders was this gross insult accomplished to the daughters of Madhya Pradesh? Do the daughters of the poor and tribal communities don’t have any dignity within the eyes of the Chief Minister?

“In the Shivraj government, Madhya Pradesh is already on top in the country in terms of misbehaviour with women. I demand from the Chief Minister that a fair and high-level inquiry should be conducted into the entire matter and the guilty should be punished severely. This is not only a matter of pregnancy test, but also of a malicious attitude towards the entire female race.”