Kisan Khet Mazdoor Congress against ancestral property succession right to females
Kisan Khet Mazdoor Congress demanded that right to succession of the ancestral property should be restricted to unmarried daughters only.
By PTI | Updated:
CHANDIGARH: Kisan Khet Mazdoor Congress, a frontal organisation of the Congress, today demanded that right to succession of the ancestral property should be restricted to unmarried daughters only, and married woman should be barred from inheriting it.
"The right to succession should be restricted to unmarried daughters like in Karnataka, Andhra Pardesh and Maharashtra," organisation's chairman Shamsher Singh Surjewala said at a press conference here.
Earlier on June 24 this year, Punjab government had amendment section 5 (1) of Punjab Land Reforms Act 1972 to make the adult daughters also eligible to share separate permissible area along with adult sons.
He also suggested to incorporate an amendment to Hindu Succession Act, wherein 50 per cent of the land owned by the husband automatically gets transferred to the wife on marriage.
"It will give added security not only to the institution of marriage itself, but will also prove to be an important source of economic independence for the wives in the eventuality of divorce," he said.
Claiming of right over ancestral property by daughters of the family (mostly married) has resulted in disintegration of the family, he alleged.
He also demanded to do away with 'Maximum Land Ceiling' to make the 'Second Green Revolution' possible.
He appealed to the Prime Minister, Congress chief and Union Agriculture Minister to take necessary steps on these issues.
"The right to succession should be restricted to unmarried daughters like in Karnataka, Andhra Pardesh and Maharashtra," organisation's chairman Shamsher Singh Surjewala said at a press conference here.
Earlier on June 24 this year, Punjab government had amendment section 5 (1) of Punjab Land Reforms Act 1972 to make the adult daughters also eligible to share separate permissible area along with adult sons.
He also suggested to incorporate an amendment to Hindu Succession Act, wherein 50 per cent of the land owned by the husband automatically gets transferred to the wife on marriage.
"It will give added security not only to the institution of marriage itself, but will also prove to be an important source of economic independence for the wives in the eventuality of divorce," he said.
Claiming of right over ancestral property by daughters of the family (mostly married) has resulted in disintegration of the family, he alleged.
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He also demanded to do away with 'Maximum Land Ceiling' to make the 'Second Green Revolution' possible.
He appealed to the Prime Minister, Congress chief and Union Agriculture Minister to take necessary steps on these issues.
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