Mumbai, India (CU)_ The Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut revealed her dissatisfaction with actor-turned politician Kamal Haasan’s concept of accepting the housework of homemakers as a salaried occupation. Kamal’s idea was appreciated by Shashi Tharoor too in Twitter, where he said, “this will enhance their power and create near-universal basic income.” Kangana took to Twitter to reply to the tweet from Shashi Tharoor.
Supporting Kamal Haasan’s latest idea that the homemakers should be given salary for their services, Shashi Tharoor said that this idea will recognize the services and contributions of women and will eventually enhance their power in society. He tweeted, “I welcome @ikamalhaasan’s idea of recognising housework as a salaried profession, w/the state govt paying a monthly wage to homemakers. This will recognise & monetise the services of women homemakers in society, enhance their power& autonomy & create near-universal basic income.”
Kangana Ranaut reacted to Shashi Tharoor’s tweet, where she completely opposed the idea. With a strong disagreement, Kangana said that women are the queens of their home and all they need is the family and not the money. She wrote in Twitter, “Don’t put a price tag on sex we have with our love, don’t pay us for mothering our own, we don’t need salary for being the Queens of our own little kingdom our home, stop seeing everything as business. Surrender to your woman she needs all of you not just your love/respect/salary.”
Responding to another tweet by a twitter user who tweeted, “working men given more value, while homemakers are dependent on their husbands financially”, Kangana replied saying that we can’t compensate a woman’s sacrifice with money. She tweeted, “It will be worse to reduce a home owner to home employ, to give price tag to mothers sacrifices and life long unwavering commitment, it’s like you want to pay God for this creation, cause you suddenly pity him for his efforts. It’s partially painful and partially funny thought.”
Ahead of Tamil Nadu assembly elections this year, Kamal Haasan promised last year that salary like payments will be provided to homemakers for their services at home if his MNM party won the elections. The seven-point Governance and Economic Agenda released by Kamal said, “Homemakers will get their due recognition through payment for their work at home which hitherto has been unrecognised and unmonetised, thus raising the dignity of our womenfolk”.
