‘Girls ready for reproduction at 15’: Cong chief’s comment triggers uproar

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights Thursday issued a discover to Congress chief Sajjan Singh Verma over his “discriminatory” remarks on procreation of minor ladies and has given him two days to “give reasons” and “justify his intentions” over the identical.
Speaking towards elevating a woman’s marriageable age from 18 to 21, Verma stirred an argument on Wednesday by alleging that medical doctors experiences affirm that  “women are ready for reproduction at the age of 15.”
“According to doctors, a girl is ready for reproduction by the age of 15. Is the CM a doctor or a scientist? So, on what basis does girls’ marriage age should be increased to 21 from 18,” Verma stated.
Verma was responding to Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh’s suggestion on elevating girls’s marriage age to 21, on par with the present males’s age within the legislation and interesting for a nationwide debate on this matter.
As Verma’s remarks precipitated uproar, with sharp reactions from the BJP, Congress spokesman Bhupendra Gupta got here out in his defence. “Verma has only asked if the CM knows about any valid research behind his demand for a debate on increasing the legal marriage age of women to 21-years,” Gupta stated including that Madhya Pradesh CM solely makes such solutions to return in limelight.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whereas addressing the nation on the 74th Independence Day final 12 months had raised the problem of minimal marriageable age for girls and acknowledged that the central authorities has constituted a committee to look into the matter.