The Congress leader was responding to P Chidambaram's statement calling khaps as backward organisations.
NEW DELHI: Following the footsteps of Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal, Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda Friday equated khap panchayats with NGOs, saying village courts are a part of the state's culture.
Addressing the press after a cabinet meeting in Chandigarh, Hooda said: 'Khap panchayats are like NGO as we have resident welfare associations.'
The Congress leader was responding to P Chidambaram's statement calling khaps as backward organisations.
Last week, Arvind Kejriwal said he would not ban the illegal village courts because they had a 'cultural' purpose despite their harsh treatment of women.
"No, it is not a question of banning these khaps," Kejriwal told Reuters, referring to khap panchayats, the name given to village councils in rural north India. "Khap panchayats are a group of people who come together. There is no bar on people to assemble in this country … (But) whenever they take a wrong decision, whenever they take an illegal decision, they ought to be punished."
Khap panchayats' diktats have ranged from banning women from wearing western clothes and using mobile phones to ordering the killing of young couples. Some councils have demanded that the minimum age of marriage be lowered to 16 from 18 for girls and 21 for boys as a way of coping with an increase in the num
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NEW DELHI: Following the footsteps of Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal, Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda Friday equated khap panchayats with NGOs, saying village courts are a part of the state's culture.
Addressing the press after a cabinet meeting in Chandigarh, Hooda said: 'Khap panchayats are like NGO as we have resident welfare associations.'
The Congress leader was responding to P Chidambaram's statement calling khaps as backward organisations.
Last week, Arvind Kejriwal said he would not ban the illegal village courts because they had a 'cultural' purpose despite their harsh treatment of women.
"No, it is not a question of banning these khaps," Kejriwal told Reuters, referring to khap panchayats, the name given to village councils in rural north India. "Khap panchayats are a group of people who come together. There is no bar on people to assemble in this country … (But) whenever they take a wrong decision, whenever they take an illegal decision, they ought to be punished."
Khap panchayats' diktats have ranged from banning women from wearing western clothes and using mobile phones to ordering the killing of young couples. Some councils have demanded that the minimum age of marriage be lowered to 16 from 18 for girls and 21 for boys as a way of coping with an increase in the num
http://in.news.yahoo.com/haryana-cm-says-khaps-are-ngos-122854840.html
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