The curious case of “ripped jeans”

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat was travelling on a flight, where a woman with two kids was "wearing boots, jeans ripped on the knees, and had several bracelets on her arm". The woman told him she worked for an NGO. Unable to control himself from interrogating the woman about her attire, he asked, "You run an NGO, wear jeans ripped at the knees, move about in society, children are with you, what values will you teach?" He also added that wearing such attire is like "running towards nudity" and  "while people in India were wearing ripped jeans, those abroad were covering their bodies properly and doing yoga". The head of Delhi Commission for Women tweeted: “Rapes happen not because women wear short clothes but because men like Tirath Singh Rawat propagate misogyny and fail to do their duty. Stand in solidarity with the women in #RippedJeansTwitter !” Many female and male celebrities also condemned the CM’s remark on ripped jeans as it trended on the internet in India.