'When girls can reproduce at 15 years, why raise their marriageable age from 18': Ex-MP minister kicks up a storm
On Monday, CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan had called for national debate on raising marriageable age for girls from 18 to 21 years.
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By Express News Service
BHOPAL: Former Madhya Pradesh PWD minister and senior Congress MLA Sajjan Singh Verma kicked up a political storm on Wednesday by saying that when the girls are capable of bearing children at 15 years age, then why talk about increasing their marriageable age from 18 years to 21 years.
Counted among staunch loyalists of the state Congress chief and ex-CM Kamal Nath, Verma made the controversial statement in response to CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s recent call to have a national debate on raising the minimum marriageable age for girls from 18 years to 21 years.