Amit Malviya on West Bengal recording ‘highest’ number of child marriages

Kolkata: BJP central observer for West Bengal Amit Malviya on Saturday slammed the Mamata government over West Bengal recording the “highest” number of child marriages in India, saying she has dragged the state into a cesspool where the dreams of little girls are being murdered.

Quoting the latest statistics on the sample registration report published earlier this month, which showed that the percentage of females getting married before attaining the official marriage age of 18 in West Bengal at the highest in India at 6.3 per cent, BJP IT Cell chief Malviya said, “A Bengal that now leads India in child marriage cannot be called Vidyasagar’s Bengal, nor Tagore’s Bengal. It is Mamata’s Bengal and the shame is entirely hers.”

According to him, such a high percentage of premature marriage was unthinkable in West Bengal, the land of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, whose most enduring contribution was the Widow Remarriage Act of 1856, which sought to dismantle the evil of child marriage and the scourge of child widows.  (IANS)

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