'People may mock but...': Eligible bachelors take out march in Solapur to seek brides

Several bachelors, clad in wedding costumes, riding horses and accompanied by band music reached the collector's office and demanded brides for themselves.

Flagging the issue of skewed male-female ratio, eligible bachelors took out a march seeking brides for themselves in Maharashtra's Solapur district.

Youths in bridal finery sitting on horses take out a rally campaigning to save the girls, in Solapur, Wednesday.(PTI)

The 'bridegroom morcha' was organised on Wednesday by an outfit, which later submitted a memorandum to the district collector's office seeking strict implementation of the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act to improve the male-female ratio in Maharashtra.

The memorandum also asked the state government to arrange brides for the eligible bachelors, who participated in the march.

Several bachelors, clad in wedding costumes, riding horses and accompanied by band music reached the collector's office and demanded brides for themselves. "People may mock this morcha, but the grim reality is that youth of marriageable age are not getting brides just because the male-female ratio is skewed in the state," said Ramesh Baraskar, the founder of the Jyoti Kranti Parishad, which organised the event.