BJP will prepare election pitch on marriage bill India News – Times of India

New Delhi: The government has recently decided to submit a bill to increase the age of marriage of girls from 18 to 21 years to the Parliamentary Standing Committee, but the BJP is pushing for the law and trying to make it a major one. Still working. Electoral issues in the upcoming state assembly elections, accusing the opposition parties of thwarting measures to empower women.
PM Narendra Modi has been talking about the law in his rallies, always alleging that the opposition was bent on failing the government and referring to the subtext of minority politics without naming leaders like AIMIM’s Asaduddin Owaisi and others Was doing.
Recently a delegation of women BJP leaders from Uttarakhand met party president JP Nadda to express their “gratitude” for this law. The opposition had demanded a parliamentary committee inquiry, but the government was also not against such a path.
“Parties which have made corruption as their economic policy, who bow down to mafia, cannot develop UP. That is why they have problems with every decision taken for the empowerment of the society,” Modi said in Kanpur on Tuesday and added, “be it a strict law against triple talaq or a bill to equalize the age of marriage for boys and girls. Let them always oppose them.” The bill seeks to raise the legal age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 and will apply to all communities.
The PM’s reference to the bill in Kanpur also assumes significance for the fact that many Samajwadi Party MPs were vocal against it and termed it interference in Muslim personal law. Opposing the bill, SP MP ST Hasan recently said that there is nothing wrong in marrying a girl even at the age of 16.