What does Khap Panchayat want?
The Khap Panchayat of Haryana wants the
Government to lower the age of marriage of boys and girls, and that when they
(youth) reach the marriageable age, they should be allowed to get married
legally. This move would help contain crimes against girls. The representative
of Maha Panchayat, Sube Singh, in a statement at Rohtak, went to the extent of
saying that films and TV serials, in which the teen-aged are presented in
sexually enticing and fashionable dresses, are responsible to a great extent for
sexual crimes and excesses against girls. This creates sensual sentiments in
teen-aged boys and girls prematurely, and they experience it in their practical
life. Besides, modern culture and lifestyle also is a great cause for the
waywardness and sexual anarchy of the tender-aged. – (The Times of India,
October 6) Earlier, leader of Jat Mahasabha of Haryana, Om
Prakash Man had also made such a demand. The leader of Meham Chaubeesi Khap
Panchayat, Randhir Singh also supports this demand. In the backdrop of these
statements of Jat and Khap leaders are the incidents of sexual assaults on young
girls that took place recently in Delhi and Haryana.
Government
won’t do it
After a hue and
cry raised by some quarters, certain Khap leaders and Khap panchayats rejected
the said statement or proposal or kept themselves aloof. The leaders of Khap
Maha Panchayat and Jat Maha Sabha seem to be educated, far-sighted and
realistic. They should have stuck to their demand; however they should not have
expected its approval from the government. For, this government has been
practicing double standard. On the one hand it raises voice against social and
sexual crimes and enacts stringent laws but on the other hand creates and
promotes all those causes and grounds that serve as the source of these crimes;
on the one hand it highlights the ill effects of wine with the help of big
advertisements and hoardings and warns against the dangerous and fatal
consequences of its consumption but on the other hand ever widens the network of
government liquor shops and centers so that the government exchequer might be
strengthened. Then this situation should also be seen in the backdrop of
globalization and the aspirations of being the world power. The obscenity,
nudity and waywardness which the Khap and Jat leaders are complaining against
are being imported from the west. The government will not lower the age of
marriage because it will stop the foreign aid received in the name of birth
control.
Awake the
society
The social
disaster modern culture can create as pinpointed by the leaders of Haryana was
also highlighted by the chief minister of West Bengal Mamta Banerjee in a
function in Kolkata on October 15. These leaders must raise such issues with the
government. But the real work is to revolutionize the society against these
moral ills. (And for this) all those sections and religious groups, who are fed
up by these issues, will have to be brought to one platform. As for Muslims,
they agree hundred per cent with the Khap and Jat leaders in regard to sexual
crimes. A representative conference of all these leaders should be convened in
which a united, common course of action should be devised. First of all,
attention will have to be paid to media which is the biggest source of promotion
of obscenity, shamelessness, nudity and waywardness. And, why only sexual
crimes? This media is also the source of promotion of social and religious
injustice. If Khap, Jat and Muslim leaders do this work jointly, it would be a
great service to the country. Every sensible person of every section of society
will support them.
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