New Delhi: After the Union Cabinet cleared the proposal to raise the minimum age of marriage for women from 18 to 21, Samajwadi Party MP ST Hasan said that girls should be allowed to marry when they attain the age of fertility.
Samajwadi Party MP ST Hasan told ANI, “Girls should be married when they attain age of fertility. There is nothing wrong if a mature girl is married at 16. If she can vote at age of 18, why can’t she marry?”
The next move of the Central Government would be to introduce an amendment to the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006, and to the Special Marriage Act and Hindu Marriage Act, 1955. For the unversed, in India, the legal marriage age for men is 21. In his address on Independence Day 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said that the plan to increase legal marriage age for women to 21 was under review.
“This government is constantly concerned about the health of daughters and sisters. To save the daughters from malnutrition, it is necessary that they’re married at the right age,” the Prime Minister had said.
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