Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar gave rise to a controversy on Friday, August 9, saying that following the abrogation of Article 370 girls can be brought from Kashmir for marriage.
“Our minister OP Dhankhar used to say that he will bring ‘bahu’ (daughter in law) from Bihar. Nowadays, people are saying that path to Kashmir has been cleared. Now we will bring girls from Kashmir,” the CM said in an event, as quoted by news agency ANI.
“Haryana was infamous due to the low birth rate of daughters. The government launched Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao campaign, due to which the number of girls born per 1,000 boys has increased from 850 to 933. We have to take this number to 1,000,” he added.
This comes a few days after, BJP MLA Vikram Saini from Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district had stated that party workers were excited over the scrapping of Article 370 as it would now enable them to marry ‘gori’ (fair) Kashmiri girls. He said bachelors in BJP were now welcome to go to Kashmir, buy plots of land and get married.
“If a woman from Kashmir got married to a man from Uttar Pradesh, her citizenship would be revoked. There was different citizenship for India and Kashmir,” Saini had said addressing the crowd.
