BJP Raises Pitch On Marriage Age Bill; To Make It Poll Issue

The government may have chosen to refer the bill raising the marriageable age of girls from 18 to 21 years to a standing committee of Parliament recently, but BJP is raising the pitch over the legislation and is seeking to make it one of the key poll issues in the coming state assembly polls, accusing opposition parties of thwarting measures to empower women.

- Akhilesh Singh

New Delhi: PM Narendra Modi has been talking about the legislation in his rallies, invariably alleging that the opposition was hell-bent on thwarting the government and obliquely referring to a sub-text of minority politics without naming leaders like AIMIM’s Asaduddin Owaisi and others.