Women are namesake power holders, while the power was used by the husbands. In Andhra Pradesh, a Telugu Desam MLA’s husband is back in the political circle gossip circles for being the ‘defacto MLA’. She looks after the household; while he takes care of the province. That’s the reason you hear in that area the slogan ‘power belongs to wife but ruler is the husband’.
Described in an article by Sakshi Post, is an interesting story to the power equation. The narrative talks of how a person observed a white Scorpio vehicle with a sticker ‘MLA Kakinada Rural’ come in full speed to stop right in front of him. Everyone thought that the lady MLA, whose car it was, had come but when the door was opened, out came her husband dressed in starched white clothes. His name is Palli Sattibabu. His wife’s name is Pilli Anantha Lakshmi.
As soon as he stepped out into the light drizzle, the gunman beside him held an umbrella over him. The people who came there were confused for sometime as they hoped it was the MLA, but instead were met by the MLA’s husband.
She became a true housewife by giving up even her power to her husband. People have been known to say that the man acts as if he’s the MLA. This is a standing joke among the folk in the province, claims the Sakshi Post article.