Congress hopes RSS is firm on its stand on homosexuality

18 Mar 2016 Evaluate

Congress leader Manish Tewari taunted the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) over Dattatreya Hosabale's remark on homosexuality and said that the Hindu nationalist organization must now not retract from its assertions on the same. He told that one should not unnecessarily interfere in anyone's personal life in the 21st century.

Tewari said that ‘In the day and age in which we live, Section 377 and its repeal should really become a fait accompli. We don't live in 17th or 18th century that we need to be subjected to Victorian era laws. The fact is as to who has a relationship with whom for what purpose the state really should not be interfering or transgressing into those matters’. He added that if at all the RSS does chose to add its voice to the overwhelming pervasive opinion in this country with regard to 377 then one would expect that having articulated a opposition they should not go back on this.

Hosabale, who was speaking at the India Today Conclave yesterday in reply to a question on whether homosexuality should remain a criminal offence under Article 377 IPC, said sexual preferences are a personal matter and the organization doesn't hold any view on it.

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