Owaisi targeted the Assam government

Hyderabad:

BJP leaders and AIMIM leaders often attack each other.

Now All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi has targeted the Assam government.

He asked who would take care of the girls after the state government's action on child marriage.

Talking to reporters, Owaisi said that it is the failure of the state government which remained silent for the last six years.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Saturday that the drive against child marriage started by the state police the previous day would continue till the next assembly elections in 2026.

According to the state government, those who marry girls below the age of 14 will be booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act and those who marry girls in the age group of 14-18 years Cases will be registered under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006.

Sharma has said that at present the parents involved in the marriage of the minor are being released after giving notice and are not being arrested.

According to an official statement by the Assam government, in the crackdown against child marriage, over 2,250 people were arrested in the state till Saturday.

Owaisi said in a press conference, “There is a BJP government in Assam for the last six years.

What have you been doing during the last six years?

This is your failure for the last six years.

You are sending them (those who marry minor girls) to jail.

Now who will take care of those girls?

Will the Chief Minister (Himant Vishwa Sharma) do it?

The marriage will remain intact.

This is the failure of the state and on top of that you are pushing them into misery.

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