—Anil Narendra
121 former judges, 101 former bureaucrats including six former ambassadors have written a letter to President Draupadi Murmu amidst the hearing of petitions in the Supreme Court to legalize same-sex marriage. On the issue of same-sex marriage, the letter said that they were repulsed by the efforts to legalize it. It has been said in the letter that if this is allowed, then the whole country will have to pay the price. We care about the people. Our society does not accept same sex culture. It will become common if marriage is allowed. This will destroy the institutions called family and society. It has been said in the letter that both the health and well-being of our children will be in danger. It has also been said in the letter that only the Parliament has the right to take any decision in this regard, where there are representatives of the people. Earlier, the Union government told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that the court can neither rewrite legal provisions nor change the basic structure of a law as envisaged at the time of its formulation. Vendra requested the court to consider leaving the questions raised in the petitions to legalize same-sex marriages for Parliament. It was written in the letter that we conscientious elderly citizens of India are shocked by the incidents happening continuously.
Our basic cultural traditions are under attack. Those who wrote the letter included former Maharashtra DGP Praveen Dixit, Justice Kamleshwar Nath, R.K. Rathore, SN Dhingra, VG Bisht, Rajeev Mehrishi, IAS LC Goyal, Shashank Sudhir Wumar, Gopal Vrishna, former judges of Karnataka, Delhi, Mumbai High Court of Madhya Pradesh and senior people of the country have written a letter to the President. Earlier, amid hearings on petitions seeking legal recognition of gay marriage in the Supreme Court, Union Law Minister Kirin Rijiju said that an important matter like the institution of marriage has to be decided by the people of the country. This issue is not only related to the religion of the majority. Similar views have been expressed by the Islamic religious body Jamiat-e-Hind, which states that concepts such as same-sex marriage stem from Western culture that has a radical atheistic worldview and should not be imposed on India. . The Bar Council of India is also of the opinion that this matter should be left to the Central Government. In this case, the most important thing is to proceed with caution.
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