RLD supports UP panchayat’s Taliban-style diktat

Last Updated: Sunday, July 15, 2012, 15:22

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Tags: UP panchayat Taliban diktat, Rashtriya Lok Dal, Asra village, Baghpat district

Zeenews Bureau

Lucknow: In what can be termed as shocking, after Bhartiya Kisan Union, the Rashtriya Lok Dal and All India Jat Arakshan Samiti has also come out in support of the Talibani-style diktat of an Uttar Pradesh panchayat at the Asra village in Baghpat.

The support becomes more appalling if it comes from a Member of Parliament and the lawmakers of this country. RLD MP and party chief Ajit Singh's son Jayant Chaudhary met the panchayat members on Saturday. While talking to journalists he said that everybody had the right to manage the affairs of one's family the way they wanted to do. “They (the panchayat members) are doing just that. It is no diktat. It is a mere suggestion from their side.” However, on the issue of the rights of women and their freedom he kept quite.

Asra village is part of the parliamentary constituency of the RLD chief Ajit Singh. This clearly outlines the vote-bank agenda behind the political support for the brazen diktat.

Earlier, the village panchayat in Bagpat district had banned love marriage, barred women below 40 years of age from going out for shopping and girls from using mobile phones on the streets.

The panchayat at Asara village in Ramala area also ruled that when women leave their homes, their heads must be covered.

The diktats were issued during a meeting of the panchayat. The panchayat also banned love marriages and said those doing so would not be allowed to live in the village.

Meanwhile, the AIJAS has also reportedly come out in support of the ban. The AIJAS is an umbrella body of various Jat associations.

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First Published: Sunday, July 15, 2012, 15:22

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BRIJ - NEWYORK
WHO SAYS TRADIIONS ARE ALWAYS RIGHT IF SO WHY SATI PRATHA IS GONE,THERE ARE PLENTY OF TRADITIONS WITHOUT ANT SENSE MUST BE ABOLISHED,THESE JAATS ARE SO DUMB THEY ALWAYS IMPOSE THIER NONSENSE ON WEAKER SECTION FEMALE OR LOWER CASTE WHY CAN,T THEY CONTROL THEIR MALE CRIMINAL OUT OF REALITY SOCIETY .

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sanjay - dilli
Why people can`t understand the real issue? There were two real issues in our society (1) One is Sati Partha and (2) two is Widow Remarriage. All the communities used to perform Sati Partha except Jats. The System of sati partha was never a part of jat traditions. It was the tradition of people who are mostly anty jats (RIGHT). Jats never performed sati partha, but these people never highlight such things, Who are really dumb people? (2) Widow remarriage, Jats have always performed widow remarriage, but No other caste used to perform widow remarriage , they used to send their women either for sati partha or for virndaban(for prostitution). Now my question is that what you call social reform, Jats are already a forward looking community. People other then Jats used to burn their women in the name of sati patha and now these people are terming the jats as dumb, is`t this ridicules ? If you have widow marriage in place in your society then their is no question of Sati patha. These two issues were the evils of our society. These two evils were never part of the Jat society. I would like to mention here that people gives credit to Raja ram mohan rai etc. that he worked for banning sati partha. But among jats sati partha never existed . So who are really dumb?

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MAK - Delhi
JATs a thousands of year old cast of Hindu are following there rule and compare as Taliban-style diktat, how come this defaming media work-out going on against one religion? please stop these 3rd rate journalism and accept the realities that Hindu society is too have thousands of faults and work to clean them instead defaming others