Ensure more participation of women in discussion on bill to increase marriageable age: MPs
The Hindu
ShivShiv Sena leader Priyanka Chaturvedi urged the Rajya Sabha Chairman to ensure more participation of women in the discussion around the Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill
ShivShiv Sena leader Priyanka Chaturvedi expressed her strong disapproval on January 3 to the inclusion of a single woman lawmaker in a parliamentary panel examining a bill to increase the legal age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 years.
“This is disheartening to note that a bill so pertinent to women and the Indian society will be deliberated upon in a committee where the representation is highly skewed,” Ms. Chaturvedi, a member of the Upper House of Parliament from Maharashtra, said in a letter to Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu.
DMK leader and Lok Sabha member Kanimozhi also expressed her displeasure over the inadequate representation of women in the panel.
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