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However the even most
disturbing aspect of the bill is that the Government is in a tearing
hurry to bring in a law which will lead to sensational chaos, family
destruction, murders for property and untimely demise of the 10,000 year
old institution that upheld Indian family system. Rewarding vicious
women and penalizing innocent men seems to have become the motto of the
government in recent times as it blindly listens to a few women’s
organisations who have never taken up the cause of young unmarried girls
facing harassment from their own parents, in their natal homes, or the
cause of widows who suffer social bias, or the cause of old women being
harassed in their families, especially old mothers-in-law tortured by
their daughters-in-law.
Feminists have readily taken up and blown the trumpet far out of proportion for
young and newly married women because the money lies there. It is a highly
politically correct issue to create channels of tax-free wealth transfer from
husband to wife because the social role of a PROVIDER has been ascribed to a man
and there is no concept of responsibility on a woman, nor are there any penal
provisions for a woman not fulfilling her responsibility as a wife in a
marriage. Claims by feminists are highly bogus and when they are challenged with
actual data, they come up with hollow analogies like Sita and Savitri. First of
all, these are all mythological characters and there is no evidence at all if
they existed and the stories that we’ve been hearing about them since childhood
have any iota of truth in it.
In a contrast
development in China, a similar property law had to be amended by
Chinese Supreme Court. As per a report published in ‘The
Telegraph (UK)’, ‘with divorce rates soaring, and widespread worries
about a new culture of hyper-materialism, the Chinese government is now
trying to stop women marrying for money. In a bid to temper the rising
expectations of Chinese women, China's Supreme Court has now ruled that
from now on, the person who buys the family home, or the parents who
advance them the money, will get to keep it after divorce’.
Why the Marraige
Law amendment bill is Very dangerous
The most destructive
features of the MAD bill:
1. This is a law
drafted by the radical feminists, for the legal terrorists. The law only
speaks of the assets of the husband, why is wife also not entitled to
50% of the husband’s liabilities? Is Marriage a relationship to profit
for a woman? In the law a Husband can NOT oppose the Divorce Petition
filed by the wife under ‘Irretrievable Breakdown of Marriage’ or ‘IrBM’.
As in India, even Kasab has the right to place his legal stand, Husbands
not being allowed to do so make it Unconstitutional u/s 15 of the
Constitution of India.
2. 50% of Residential
Property of Husband will be given to wife BY LAW. No Questions asked on
Duties, Liabilities. Only Profits are shared. This does not happen even
in splits of business under partnership as Liabilities and Duties are
also shared equally. Looks like Government of India does not consider
Marriage as even Partnership but only as Proprietorship where all
benefits goes to Wife and all losses goes to Husband.
Residential Property
of Husband could be before/ during the marriage that means that if you
are unmarried and you purchase a house, even that will get divided post
marriage in case of a Divorce under IrBM.
4. This does NOT do
away with the any of the existing penalties to Husbands like Jail,
Multiple Maintenance, Residence Rights, Protection Rights, in a DV ACT
No custody etc.
Wife ONLY gets Right
to Property thus forcing Husband, his Old Age Parents and his other
dependent family members (unmarried sister, Pregnant sister-in-laws,
next generations in the womb of women in the family etc.) to die on
Streets of India. This is over and above the Domestic Violence Act that
throws out Husband and his Parents & family members in an easy
combination of "Right of Residence" and "Protection Order". So, Parental
home goes under wife's custody and Husband's Property in any case is 50%
hers.
5. With no current
clarity of definition of Marital Property, even acquired Parental
Property could go to wives. Isn’t this a plan to promote male foeticide
(which as such is a hidden fact because of women' organisations’
pressure)?
6. Since, this inhuman
experiment is being done on Hindu Husbands, it will invite other
religions (which are not covered under HMA) to get conversions done from
Hindu to their community and thus reducing the Hindu Vote Bank and
Hinduism from the country.
7. The amendment, if
passed, may cause huge damage to the Indian institution of marriage as
most youth would prefer to have a live-in relationship to keep things
risk-free.
Demands
Indians demand the
immediate resignation of Law Minister Salman Khurshid for making
amendment after amendment in a bill with far reaching consequences
without any debate with the citizenry of the nation. Who is he to decide
on the future of the Hindu family system in India? Also we demand that
the Women and Child Ministry be relieved from law making with immediate
effect since it is clear that that they have locus standi on welfare of
men and the family system in general and such a ministry cannot be
entrusted to create laws of such sensitive nature. The law needs to be
put up for larger public debate and Indian citizens must be allowed to
speak and voice their opinions on the MAD bill.
[Rajesh Vakharia is a Nagpur based Men's Rights Activist. He can be
contacted at
rajeshvakharia40@gmail.com] |
