CHANDIGARH; Haryana Government has once again taken up the issue of amending the Hindu Succession Act to deny married women the right in the property of her parents.
The Devi Lal Government had taken up the issue in its earlier term also. The Haryana Cabinet decided to move a resolution to this effect in the next week long session of the State Vidhan Sabha beginning on September 11.
As the Hindu Session Act comes under the jurisdiction of the Central Government, the State Government would them make a recommendation to the Central Government to amend the act.
The Chief Minister’s intention is that agricultural land should not be split into small pieces on account of family feuds. If the act is amended the Devi Lal government says there would be less litigation on landed property issues and agriculture land would be saved.
However, if amended, the Act would deny women a share in the parent’s property and would also deny equality of sisters with brothers.
Talking to newsmen after the State Cabinet meeting, the Deputy Chief Minister, Mr. Barnarsi Das Gupta said the resolution aimed at reducing the litigation among brothers and sisters for obtaining their share in the agriculture land of their parents. The Government would favor married women to have the right to share the property of their in laws only so far as the agriculture land was concerned.
The Cabinet also approved the setting up of a third cement factory at Panchkuala. The state already had two cement factories at Charkhi Dadri and Surajpur.
Gupta denied that anybody in the Government had received huge sums from colonsiers.
Mangal Sein also a Haryana Deputy Chief Minister repeated that four members of Parliament from Haryana who had quit the Lok Sabha recently would be honored at Palwal, Rewari, Dadri and Fatehabad.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 25, 1989
