Last week, the 117-member Punjab Vidhan Sabha, in which the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has 92 legislators, passed the Punjab University Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2023.
Punjabi Writers, Activists Say Self-Proclaimed Sikh Leaders Can t Take Away Women s Rights The anxiety over women entering into marriages of choice has deep-seated patriarchal and casteist roots, wherein a woman is perceived as property, and handed over from her parents to her husbandâs family, safely within the community and caste, with little say in the matter.
The 18-year-old Sikh woman from Kashmir who was brought to Delhi by community leaders . Photo: PTI
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New Delhi:Â A group of Punjabi writers, social activists, academics, public intellectuals and others have issued a statement expressing concern over what some community leaders have recently said about Sikh women marrying Muslim men.