Anand Pradhan, the Husband of Rajya Sabha Anchor Amrita Rai has urged respect for his Privacy, after the news of Relationship between Amrita and Congress Leader Digvijaya Singh went public.
Old Days: Amrita Rai with her Husband Anand Pradhan
In a Facebook post, Anand said that he was going with difficult times and appealed others to respect his privacy.
He wrote, “I am going through difficult and testing times. Amrita and I have lived separate lives for a long time. We have applied for divorce with mutual consent. It is a legal procedure which takes its own time. But the relationship we once had ended long ago.”
“Amrita is free to take decisions about her future and I respect them. I also wish her the best for her future life”.
“I know many of my friends, well-wishers, students and colleagues are feeling sorry for me. But more than that, I also know they are with me. I am sure I will come out of these difficult times. I expect you all to respect my privacy. One gets to recognise one’s friends on such occasions”.
“For people who are not ready to view the finer details of man-woman relationship and also the woman’s existence and personality from any other mindset than the feudal and patriarchal one, for those who do not consider women anything more than a private property or a baby-making machine, for those who do not respect the dignity of that gender, it is a chance to indulge in lurid jokes, personal attacks and mudslinging. But this is all they know. This is the limit of their thinking and politics. I do not expect anything more than this from them”.
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Anand Pradhan works as an Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi