From: Ashok T. Jaisinghani <ashokjai@sancharnet.in>
Date: Sun, May 15, 2011 at 4:27 PM
Subject: Use of Terror by Khap Panchayats
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Panchayats of KhaufLet Khaps see their real image in the mirror;With fear, they make boys and girls shiver;Many are Panchayats of Khauf or terror;Is there any doubt about that, whatsoever?Has the young Congress MP Naveen Jindal,Not given Khap Panchayats a wrong signal?Why are leaders like Om Prakash Chautala,Involved in the Khap Panchayats' ghotala?How can Khaps kill any dulhaa and dulhan,Just because their gotra is the same one?By marrying, what wrong have they done,That they be hanged or shot with a gun?Can there really be any Dharma sutra,That asks a father to kill his own putra!For marrying some girl from the same gotra?Can such killers wash off sins with go-mutra!How can a father become such a cruel one,That he mercilessly kills even his own son!Like an animal hunted and shot with a gun?To stop such crimes, is there really no one?For India, Khap Panchayats are big shraap;Lots of money, they know how to dhhaap;They can fill their purses of the largest maap,To finance their cruel actions of worst paap.
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Chautala follows Jindal to back khap demand
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Chautala-follows-Jindal-to-back-khap-demand/articleshow/5914708.cms
TNN, May 11, 2010, 12.09am IST
KAITHAL/NEW DELHI: The attempt of Haryana's self-proclaimed khap panchayats to declare themselves autonomous of the law of land has entered a decisive phase, with the Jat-dominated caste bodies appearing to be on the verge of bludgeoning the political class into acquiescence.
On a day when Congress MP Naveen Jindal bowed to the pressure of khaps to endorse at Kaithal their demand for a ban on intra-gotra marriage, former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala said that he would move a resolution in Haryana, seeking legislative sanction for the khap demands.
With the khaps successfully turning their defence of medieval practices into an issue of caste honour, Chautala's "either-you-are-with-or-against-the community" argument can create a serious predicament for the Jat political class.
Chautala defended his stand by saying that the same-gotra marriage taboo had a scientific basis in the form of findings about the harmful consequences of sub-caste endogamy.
But it was clear that the canny Chaudhary was going to play by the "biradari ki izzat'' sentiment to herd the Jat politicians into rallying behind the khaps. Jats account for 27 of the 90 MLAs in Haryana, and have an outsized political influence in the state, given their population share of 24-27%.
The stand of both Jindal and Chautala is a testament to the clout of the khaps in the state. Jindal is a member of the elite club of politicians whom many saw as breaking away from the old caste-community mould. Well-known industrialists, the Jindals are hardly new to politics.
Chautala is also not given to succumb to pressure easily. The political heir of Devi Lal, he has a considerable following among Jats, many of whom have stuck with him despite the maze of allegations surrounding the Chautala clan.
On Monday, Chautala met Union home minister P Chidambaram to demand that the Hindu Marriage Act be amended to legitimize the age-old taboo on gotra endogamy.
Jindal had rushed to Kaithal to assuage the khap members who had vowed to boycott him after the Congress MP from Kurushektra failed to keep his appointment with them last week. Early on, the khap representatives had threaten to lay siege to the Jindal residence in Kaithal if he did not back their cause to criminalize same-gotra and intra-village marriages by amending section 5 of the Hindu Marriage Act.
The two-term MP recognized the cost of annoying his powerful constituents. After landing at Jindal House from his helicopter, MP Naveen Jindal rushed at 1.40pm to Sector 19 HUDA rally site where representatives of khaps under the banner of Sarvjatiya Sarv Khap were waiting for him from 10am.
Jindal expressed regret for not keeping his date with the Jat congregation at Pai on May 2, and assured that being their representative he would do what ever possible under the law of the land to meet their demands.
Appreciating the social obligations taken up by khaps, he said that Panchayats were playing important roles in society for ages. Jindal bowed his head before the elders and said that their orders are acceptable to him.
Seeking the influence and experience of elders for the removal of social evils like dowry and feoticide, he assured on behalf of the Congress Party that their justified demand would be raised at the suitable forum at an appropriate time.
The president of the Sarvjatiya Sarv Khap, Mewa Singh Chhater, welcomed Jindal for toeing their line and said that other MPs of the Lok Sabha and Rajya, including former Haryana chief minister Bhajan Lal, should clarify their position over the Hindu Marriage Act by May 25.
Jindal is the first MP of Haryana who favoured the self-imposed and self-styled khap panchayats which issue unconstitutional directives over the marriage by terming couple sister and brother. Representatives of khap panchayats also informed that they were in touch with other khaps of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh over a change in the Hindu Marriage Act.
Monday's meeting was mainly attended by people over the age of 60 years. Though khap had constituted separate units for women and youth at Pai meeting, the presence of youth and women was negligible. Except for a few speakers, there was no reference to the capital punishment awarded by a Karnal court in Manoj-Babli case in which the couple was hunted down and murdered for eloping and marrying.
Times View
Leaders are supposed to lead. But in Haryana we are watching a shocking spectacle of top leaders — one, an ex-chief minister, and the other, a poster boy of the Congress youth brigade — being led by medieval forces that are drumming up "popular sentiment" to justify a barbaric social system. These politicians appear to have lost sight of as basic a thing as what's right and what's wrong. Modern India can't be built just by economic progress; it must have social progress as well. The political class, therefore, has to resist this timid surrender by Haryana politicians to the murderous khaps.
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