CPM demands bill in session

Jul 11, 2010 - Age Correspondent |

New Delhi

Criticising the Centre’s move to set up a Group of Ministers (GoM) to consider amendments to the law to deal with honour killings, the CPI(M) said that the defence of honour killings by some of those in power is “abhorrent”. The party demanded that a draft of a comprehensive law to deal with such crimes should be tabled in the monsoon session of Parliament.

In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, CPI(M) politburo member and Rajya Sabha MP Brinda Karat said, “you will agree that to put vote bank politics over the requirements of those in office to uphold the rights granted by the Constitution is abhorrent. Yet this is being done.”
She said that the discussions with state governments and the GoM on the issue would “not be at all helpful”, adding that “delays on the part of the Centre to decide on a firm course of action in setting up a legal framework strengthens the perception that it is caused by the pressure of vote bank politics”.
Urging the PM “to do justice to young couples who are victims of casteist notions”, she said “what is required is a firm decision by the government for a separate law, the draft of which may be placed in Parliament in the coming Session”. Criticising home minister P. Chidambaram, Ms Karat said that “unfortunately” the home minister was “clearly unaware of the logic” for a separate legislation.

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