Mumbai, Jan. 8: Lok Sabha member Supriya Sule today wondered why it was such a problem if a girl had a bit of "fun" after the video of a light-hearted speech she made was trolled in the social media and pilloried by fellow politicians.

Sharad Pawar's daughter had breezily told a bunch of young girls and women at a festival in Nashik that people might think MPs discuss only weighty matters in Parliament but when the debates get repetitive, she and her girlfriends engage in small talk.

"When I go to Parliament, I hear the first speech, the second speech and the third speech. Till the fourth speech, the one who is speaking is saying the same things the earlier speakers have said.... If you ask me what was said after the fourth speech, I am unable to do so," she said.

"We speak to some other MP. While we are chatting with the MPs, everyone is watching, the TV cameras above are watching. People think the MPs are discussing (affairs of) the country, but we discuss things like: from where did you buy your sari and from where did I get mine?" Sule told an audience of 15 to 35-year-old women.

Sule was speaking at the Anandiche Utsav (Festival for Happy Women), a private event organised on December 15 by the owner of a co-operative bank, Vishwas Thakur, at his apartment complex. The clip created a storm today after it was played by a Hindi TV channel.

"All I did was have fun at a funfair for women. What am I supposed to do there - look glum and serious and important because I am a politician?" the Nationalist Congress Party MP told The Telegraph.

" They are focusing on a one-minute clip from a half-an-hour speech on woman power. I mean, give me a break."

In the clip, Sule is also heard saying: "If I am speak ing to the MP from Chennai, you will say: Oh God, I may be discussing the heavy rains in Chennai. We don't indulge in any such discussion. We discuss things like: from where did you buy your sari and from where did I get mine?"

Shiv Sena leader Neelam Gorhe said Sule's remarks were irresponsible: "To make such comments demeans the sincere women legislators and MPs who have struggled to become House members."

"Must women typify and slot other women as frivolous, even if in jest," a tweet said.

Sule said she was particularly angry because "after the news broke, a male MP from another party had the temerity to send me a text message saying, 'What sari are you wearing today?'"

"This is so gross," she said. "Is a politician to be taken at his word and analysed and judged even if it is in a private space and said in jest? What are we, robots?"

It was Sule's comment on women's reservation in Parliament that was attacked the most.

"All the male members in Parliament tease me that if an additional 50 per cent reservation is given to women, then debates in Parliament will be only about saris, facials and parlours," she says in the clip.

"I have told them many times that you are the ones who make comments on saris and have not done much welfare for the country ."

From journalists and politicians to lawyers and others, many have castigated Sule.

"But many like Milind Deora, Meenakshi Lekhi and others have shown support cutting across party lines. I think this shows that it is a clash between an archaic and a modern approach," Sule said.