Shobha Aggarwal’s interview with Namrata Kolachalam, an American journalist based in Mumbai doing a radio piece for ‘The World’, was conducted through Zoom on 23 December 2022. Not a world/line of the interview lasting 47 minutes 23 seconds was used by the journalist in her piece which was run on 6 January 2023.
Shobha’s
philosophy all along has been that Parliament alone is the forum which could legislate
on same-sex marriage. ABVA has been petitioning the Parliament to implement its
Gay Manifesto since 1991 which includes the demand for same-sex marriage. In the
interview Shobha, a lawyer by profession, had emphasized that the “issue needs
to be debated in the Parliament.”
Now
in the ongoing hearing of the same-sex marriage petitions by a 5-judge
constitution bench of the Supreme Court of India, the Chief Justice has reportedly
articulated – after several days of hearing arguments from both sides – that Parliament
alone can legislate
on same-sex marriage!!
This
is in consonance with and echoes Shobha’s views.
Full
interview is available with ABVA Collective.
P.S.
Sahni
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