UP brides return to their maykas, they are fed up of flies

UP brides return to their maykas – they are fed up of flies

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KEY HIGHLIGHTS

• At least six brides of Badhaiyan Purwa village have returned to their maternal homes in a period of one year
• The brides asked their husbands to leave their villages or forget them
• Single men in the villages are finding it difficult to find brides

Hardoi: Daughters-in-law in villages of Ahirori block of Hardoi, Uttar Pradesh, have left their sasurals to return to their maykas after being fed up with flies.

At least six brides of Badhaiyan Purwa village have returned to their maternal homes in a period of one year. Their husbands tried to convince them to return but in vain. The brides asked their husbands to leave their villages or forget them.

The women are ready for separation as they don’t want to live with the flies.

The villages of Badhaiyan Purwa, Kuyian, Patti, Dahee, Salempur, Fatehpur, Jhal Purwa, Naya Gaon, Deoriya and Ekghara are infested with flies, Live Hindustan reported.

Single men in the villages are finding it difficult to find brides.

A local named Dharmendra said that when his sister’s in-laws-to-be came, flies attacked the sweets they had brought. The groom’s side refused to get their son married.

The marriages of Ajay Verma and Ramkhilawan’s daughters were fixed, however, the groom’s side refused mid-rituals – thanks to flies.

The villages have become home to swarms of flies after a commercial poultry farm was opened in the area in 2014. The situation worsened in the last three years as the number of flies increased to thousands.

Residents of Badhaiyan Purwa are protesting against the issue outside the village. Women finish their household chores by afternoon to participate in the protest.

Village Pradhan Vikas Kumar said that the menace of flies has become so big a trouble that they have become the cause of fights in relationships. He said that last year, three men and four girls were somehow married. While the three brides who came to the village returned to their maykas, the daughters who left the village after marriage are not allowed to come to their parents’ houses.

No marriages have taken place this year.

Arihori CHC Superintendent Manoj Kumar said that several camps and awareness drives have been organised. No trends of diseases related to flies have been observed in the villages, he said.