TopicKhap panchayat

Topic: khap panchayat

Stolen glances to stolen lives: Stories behind the ‘honour killings’ of Rajasthan, Haryana

+TFP Tanushree Pandey - 30 March, 2022

The news often reports ‘honour killing’ incidents, but what’s usually missing is the stories of the couples, their families, and how love can generate murderous hate.

Haryana Khaps angry at new marriage age and ‘runaway girls’, Mewat says 3 yrs is like 100

Jyoti Yadav - 1 January, 2022

The Khap panchayat men’s adamant opposition to the new marriage age for women pauses only on the Muslim question. If the law is applied to Muslims as well, they say they will accept it.

RLD chief is now ‘Chaudhary Jayant Singh’ or Bade Chaudhary. And that’s politically significant

Prashant Srivastava - 23 September, 2021

RLD hopes Jayant Chaudhary’s recognition as political representative of all khaps will help boost his position in north India, and party’s fortunes in 2022 UP polls.

Over 1,100 rape cases ended in compromise after going to court since 2014: NCRB

Naveed Ahmad - 4 April, 2021

Over the years, compromise marriages have become institutionalised through laws and law enforcement.

Demand for equal pay, 50% quota in Parliament at Haryana’s first mahila mahapanchayat

Shubhangi Misra - 18 March, 2021

Women at the mahapanchayat raised slogans against Modi govt, demanding a roll back of farm laws. They say the farmers’ protest helped women in Haryana to come out of their homes.

Khap panchayats — the role & history of complex social institution in Haryana & western UP

Arun Anand - 3 March, 2021

Outside certain rural parts of Haryana and western UP, there hasn’t been much understanding about the complex khap system and khap panchayats.

‘Can’t afford to let Jats go away’ — BJP to meet khaps to clear ‘misconceptions’ on farm laws

Neelam Pandey - 17 February, 2021

BJP president J.P. Nadda and Home Minister Amit Shah met party leaders from Haryana, Rajasthan & western UP to discuss farmer protests and the way forward.

How farmers’ protest has made Haryana khaps, infamous for honour-killing diktats, relevant again

Chitleen K Sethi - 10 February, 2021

Khaps were losing their influence on Haryana politics, but now these mostly-Jat councils are uniting in support of farm protests and against BJP-JJP govt.

Meeting with khaps, central intervention — how BJP plans to defuse Jat dissent over farm laws

Shanker Arnimesh - 3 February, 2021

BJP is facing increasing Jat opposition in Haryana and Western UP over farm laws. In Haryana, party leaders say, not having a Jat CM is hurting BJP 'for the first time'.

Security stepped up in Singhu, police say ‘can’t afford to have another R-Day violence’

Shubhangi Misra - 1 February, 2021

Farmers say police are ‘instigating’ them by enhancing security measures at the protest site and also trying to cut off their supplies of daily ration.

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