Jammu: Lashing out at Narendra Modi for his “lack of knowledge”, the Jammu and Kashmir government today said a Bill to provide “rights” to women even after their marriage outside the state had been passed and a law formed.
“His (Modi's) local unit (of BJP) has not informed him that in the State Assembly this law has been passed. And now women have equal rights and rights to property even if they marry someone outside the state... Their children will also get the rights,” Congress minister Taj Mohideen said here.
Reacting to the BJP prime ministerial candidate's remarks on women's rights in the state and that it discriminates against them by snatching their rights after marriage outside the state, Mohideen said, “I was in the Assembly when the Bill (to provide these rights to women marrying outside the state) was passed and after that the law was formed.” “...We have made the law in 2005 and that law has nothing to do with Article 370,” he said.
On Modi's call for a debate on Article 370 of the Constitution, he said, “Congress has remained custodian of Article 370 and its guarantor. Until the state has relations with India, Congress' stand will remain the same.”
