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| Lal Singh stirs hornet's nest bats for allowing sex determination test | | Negates spirit of Beti Bachao scheme | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 25: Despite being a part of the same government which has envisaged 'Beti Bachao..' scheme with an aggressive countrywide campaign, there is no whimper nor any voice against brazen remarks of J&K health Minister Lal Singh supporting sex determination test in the state. For whatever explanations and interpretations behind this comment, Lal Singh only said it in public that raised many a eyebrows across the state besides leaving medical fraternity startled, the test having been banned since long in the state. Infamous for his controversial conduct as the Health minister, Lal Singh added this as one more to the list of controversies, however, much to embarrassment of PDP-BJP government as also the BJP led NDA government at the centre which has been vociferously opposing the sex determination test which paves way for female foeticide and has resulted in staggering figures of child sex ratio in many states. As always Lal Singh came out with his 'unique' interpretation of the remark as to why he would favour conducting of this test. The crux of the reasoning strangely enough was to let the illegal practice be conducted by the doctors and let this become known to all that if a pregnant women carries in her womb was a male or female child. If after getting this known anyone was found daring to commit foeticide, that person could be punished and at the same time the pregnant women could be given protection of her life as also for the foetus. However, this explanation is not just ill conceived but also laden with all impracticalities and impossibilities. What is more astonishing is a fact that how could the Health Minister even think of this at a time when the party he belongs to and the Prime Minister Narender Modi himself has been strongly pleading and using the words and expressions like 'begging for lives of daughters' while he launched the 'Beti Bachao ' scheme this year in order to encourage birth of girls. The PM has even termed the practice of sex determination test as 'mental illness' of the people and even cautioned at what he termed as 'terrible crisis' if this practice was not checked at the earliest. In the backdrop of this reality, J&K Health Minister's remarks are not only regressive and redundant but out and out antagonistic of what his party and the government at centre is aggressively supporting the cause. |
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