Bhopal Nov 26 PTI Shree Rashtriya Rajput Karni Sena on Friday staged a protest and set ablaze an effigy of Madhya Pradesh Minister Bisahulal Singh near his official residence here for his controversial remarks against upper caste communities Singh had on Wednesday said that women from the upper caste communities should be pulled out of their homes and made to work to empower them and achieve equality with men The ministers objectionable remark has hurt the Rajput community Our MP organising secretary Shailendra Singh Jhala has directed us to blacken Singhs face whenever we see him the outfits Bhopal district president Krishna Bundela told PTI Nearly 300 Karni Sena activists reached Singhs residence but they were stopped by the police some distance away from the ministers place he said So we protested and set ablaze Singhs effigy at the scene he said warning of a state-wide agitation if the minister did not tender an apology for his remark Addressing a function organised to felicitate women in Anuppur district the minister had said Big people like upper caste Thakur Thakar and some other big people keep their women confined to homes and dont let them go out while women of lower strata of society in our villages work in the field and also do household chores Pull out the women of big people - Thakur from their homes Will this not make them march ahead the tribal leader had said PTI LAL ARU ARU