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Watching Porn At Work of the Day: Three members of India’s morally conservative Bharatiya Janata Party — one of whom suggested a buttoned-up dress code for women just last month — were forced to resign in disgrace after they were caught looking at pornography on a cell phone during a parliamentary session.

Footage of Laxman Savadi, Karnataka state’s Minister for Cooperation, and C.C. Patil, minister for women and child development, watching porn on the cell phone of state Minister for Ports, Science and Technology Krishna Palemar has been shown on all national news channels.

The trio claim they were not engaging in “deliberate” porn viewing, but decided to tender their resignation in order to save BJP from further embarrassment.

“We live in a country where there already is this social mind-set that women are disposable commodities,” said former women’s development minister Renuka Chowdhary. “It really is troubling that the people who are in positions of power and have the responsibility to change things actually have the same mindset and are busy watching porn.”

A similar incident occurred last year in Indonesia, where a prominent anti-porn politician was captured on camera looking at porn during a parliamentary debate.

[ap / blogpost.]