As the Lok Sabha election is scheduled next year, like all other issues, marriage equality is not going to be a concern for any political party. The only remedy that remains is to struggle, strike and pressurise the government through popular movement.
Apart from the established statute, the willingness of the government to curb crimes against women through administrative machineries plays a major role towards a just society. If the government considers the Bilkis Bano case below the ‘rare of the rarest’ threshold, the intention is very clear that women and children safety is nothing more than a rhetoric.
A student belonging to the Hazara ethnic group in Afghanistan arrived in India before the Taliban takeover in 2021. He now yearns to go back home every single day
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