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New Delhi: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen President Asaduddin Owaisi has strongly criticized the Modi government’s proposal to raise the minimum age of marriage for women from 18 to 21. The Union Cabinet has also approved this proposal in this regard on Wednesday. Now the government can also bring a bill on this in the winter session of Parliament soon. Owaisi reacted by making several tweets.
Expressing his anger over this decision of the government, AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi asked the central government that they should also be allowed to marry at the age of 18 at which girls and boys can choose MPs. He considered the age of 18 as an adult for all other purposes then why not for marriage?
Targeting the government, he asked that the government should first tell what steps were taken for the human development of 18-year-old children. He said that 18-year-old children were given all the rights, then why the right to marriage is not being given.
He said by tweeting that the government can give consent for sex and live in partnership, the government itself has made a law related to it but does not have the right to choose life partner. This is extremely funny. He took a jibe at the center and said that you are a government and not the uncle of any locality. Who decides who eats what, whom we marry and when, which god we worship.
MP Owaisi also said that there will be no benefit from this law and neither will it do any good to women. Owaisi said that social reforms and government initiatives in education and human development are the most important points to prevent child marriage. Had PM Modi been honest, he would have tried to increase economic opportunities for women. He said that India is the only country where the participation of women in the workforce is steadily declining.
