Karnataka Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar on Sunday made some bizarre remarks on modern women.
He claimed that modern Indian women want to stay single, are unwilling to give birth even after marriage and desire children by surrogacy.
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"Today, I am sorry to say this, lots of modern women in India want to stay single. Even if they get married, they don't want to give birth. They want surrogacy. So there is a paradigm shift in our thinking, which is not good," he said during the World Mental Health Day at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurological Sciences.
Lamenting the "western influence" on Indian society, the Minister said people are not willing to let their parents be with them.
"Unfortunately, today we are going in a western way. We don't want our parents to live with us, forget about grandparents being with us," the minister said.