Parliament News Live Updates: The government is likely to introduce a bill to amend the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 in the ongoing winter session of Parliament during the winter session beginning today. The Union Cabinet has decided to raise the legal age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 years to bring it at par with men. The proposed bill may also seek to make consequential changes to various personal laws relating to marriages of different communities to ensure a uniform marriage age. As of now, the legal age of marriage for women is 18 years while that for men is 21.
The decision comes a year after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the government is considering what should be the minimum age for women to marry. The decision is based on the recommendation of a four-member task force headed by former Samata Party chief Jaya Jaitley.
Meanwhile, there is no motion for a deadlock over the suspension of 12 MPs in the Rajya Sabha as a united opposition on Sunday rejected the government’s reach to resolve the impasse.
Top sources in the opposition told PTI that they would not attend the Monday morning meeting called by Leader of the House Piyush Goyal as invitations were sent to leaders of four parties whose MPs have been suspended and not the entire opposition. To.
Responding to a letter by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi inviting the four parties, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge said, “The select invitations were unfortunate. The government’s invitations were to the Congress, Trinamool Congress, Shiv Sena and CPI(M). ), sources said. The meeting was called at 10 am on Monday as the winter session of Parliament is entering its last week. A senior opposition leader said, “We are not attending tomorrow’s meeting with the government. Will be because the opposition is united in its fight.”
“All opposition parties are united in protest against the suspension of 12 MPs. We have been requesting since the evening of November 29 that either the Chairman of Rajya Sabha or Leader of the House Piyush Goyal call leaders of all opposition parties for discussion to break the deadlock.”
“Our reasonable request has not been agreed to. Moreover, instead of inviting leaders of all opposition parties, it is unfair and unfortunate to invite leaders of only four opposition parties,” Kharge said in his letter to Parliamentary Affairs Minister Joshi.
TMC leader Derek O’Brien tweeted, “Monday morning stunt from a government that doesn’t want Parliament to run. The government calls the leaders of the four opposition parties whose 12 Rajya Sabha MPs have been arbitrarily suspended.”
“The government leaves the other 10 opposition parties. Failed stunt. All protest clear: First cancel the arbitrary suspension.
“It is quite unfortunate that the government has delayed such talks with the opposition even after three weeks of suspension. Even now the government’s action is not serious as the meeting is only for floor leaders of parties of suspended MPs.”
“You are well aware that the entire opposition is taking a unified stand on the issue of this suspension and all the opposition parties together have requested the Speaker and the government to organize such a meeting to resolve the impasse.”
He alleged that it is the government which delayed it and the decision to invite only a section of opposition party leaders for the meeting was “totally unfair and unacceptable”. “If the government is sincere in resolving this issue, I would request you to call a meeting of all opposition parties,” Karim said in his letter to Joshi.
The opposition parties have decided to meet on Monday morning to develop their joint strategy in Parliament during the last week of the winter session. The Rajya Sabha has failed to do any important work as the opposition is unitingly protesting in the House, causing repeated disruptions over the suspension issue.
While the government wants the suspended MPs to apologize first, the opposition is saying that the suspension should be withdrawn without any apology. Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu had urged the government and the opposition to resolve the impasse over the suspension and find an amicable solution.
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