Priyanka Chaturvedi demands more inclusive panel to review legal marriage age for women

Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi has written to the chairman of Rajya Sabha demanding a more inclusive panel to review the bill changing legal marriage age for women.

Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi has written to the Rajya Sabha chairman, demanding a more inclusive panel in the Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sport that is tasked with reviewing the bill changing legal marriage age for women. A 31 Member Parliamentary Standing Committee of which 30 are male MPs will decide the fate of women to decide if marriage age should be raised to 21. I have written to @VPSecretariat to kindly ensure a more woman inclusive panel to deliberate on a decision impacting India’s women pic.twitter.com/Rs4e8sHx1E

In a letter, Chaturvedi said the committee tasked with reviewing The Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill has only one female MP.