Chautala,PC didnt discuss khap: MHA

A day after INLD chief Om Prakash Chautala met Home Minister P Chidambaram and told reporters that he had sought an amendment in the Hindu Marriage Act to ban same-gotra marriage,Union Home Ministry clarified on Tuesday that no such subject was discussed in that meeting as reported in the media.

Chautala led a delegation to meet the Home Minister on Monday,May 10,2010. The delegation presented a memorandum. The memorandum was in respect of an incident in Sirsa district involving Gopal Kanda,Minister of State for Home,Government of Haryana. No other subject was discussed during the meeting and no other memorandum was given by Om Prakash Chautala to the Union Home Minister, the Home Ministry said in a press release.

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Khap panchayats not legal: Hooda

Breaking his silence on the khap panchayat issue,Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Tuesday said these gatherings have no legal status and the state government would not let them take law into their hands.

Khap panchayats have no legal sanctity, Hooda told the media outside Yojana Bhawan,adding that historically they were informal social organisations like NGOs.

As far as the Haryana government is concerned,if anybody does anything good for a social cause,we welcome it,but nobody will be allowed to take law into his hands, he said.

Khap panchayats, according to Hooda,have their views and we have our own views.