The Congress walked out of the Home for 10 minutes.
Guwahati:
The opposition Congress and AIUDF staged walkouts from the Assam Meeting on Monday, protesting the choice by the state Cupboard to repeal the Assam Muslim Marriages and Divorces Registration Act, 1935.
The AIUDF had moved an adjournment movement to debate the cupboard choice, which was rejected by Speaker Biswajit Daimary.
The Congress maintained that amendments might have been made to the unique invoice with out repealing it altogether.
The Assam Cupboard on Friday had accredited the choice to repeal the Act in a bid to finish the social menace of kid marriage within the state, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma mentioned.
Responding to the opposition events’ criticism, Mr Sarma asserted within the Home on Monday that the invoice shall be repealed as it’s a step in the direction of abolishing youngster marriage.
”Until I’m alive, I will not enable youngster marriage to occur in Assam,” he mentioned.
The Congress walked out of the Home for 10 minutes, in opposition to the Cupboard choice.
AIUDF legislators initially raised slogans and stormed into the Effectively of the Home, squatting on the ground for over 5 minutes.
In addition they later walked out because the Speaker continued to conduct the listed enterprise of the Home.
Opposition CPI(M) legislator and the lone Impartial MLA, nevertheless, remained within the Home.
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