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Jammu:
The Congress has decided to oppose a bill moved earlier this week in
the upper house of the state legislature depriving women of their
citizenship rights if they marry non-permanent residents of Jammu
and Kashmir.
"This piece of legislation will never be supported by the party
within or outside of the legislature," said a senior Congress
minister in the coalition government of Chief Minister Omar
Abdullah.
The
Permanent Resident (Disqualification) Bill moved March 8 by Murtaza
Khan of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The
Congress minister, who requested anonymity as he was not authorized
to speak on the subject, said: "It (the bill) is discriminatory and
cannot be accepted in any form. Our president Sonia Gandhi is for
empowerment of women and we are her foot soldiers in the state and
will not allow anything that hurts our party or its vision."
The
stand is similar to the one the party had taken in 2004, when the
bill was first introduced to overturn a judgement of the state High
Court, which ruled that the women of Jammu and Kashmir had the same
citizenship rights as men even if they married a non-permanent
resident of the state.
Congress legislature party leader Mohammad Aslam told the
legislative assembly Saturday that the party would not allow the
passage of the bill.
In
Jammu and Kashmir only permanent residents enjoy rights ranging from
citizenship, to voting in the assembly, panchayat and municipal
elections, to getting government jobs, to acquiring immovable
property in the state.
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