Ramadoss to take up gay issue with Prime Minister

NEED FOR A SOLUTION: Ramadoss wants Prime Minister to provide a solution to the gay problem.

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New Delhi: Maintaining his stand for legalising homosexuality in India, Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss says that he and his other like-minded’ colleagues will meet Prime Minister to seek a solution to the problem.

Union Home Ministry does not support Ramadoss’ view on homosexuality and had asked Delhi High Court to ignore the views of Home Ministry on removing a penal provision (Section 377 of IPC) against homosexuality.

According to the Section 377 homosexuality is a punishable offence and provides punishment of up to life imprisonment for violators.

So, it is yet another issue on which the Home Minister finds himself isolated and the worse is that his cabinet colleagues are closing ranks.

The Home Ministry's stand before the Delhi High Court that homosexuality is illegal is turning into a health versus morality debate and coming out in support of the Health Minister are his cabinet colleagues as they are now planning to take the matter to the PM.

“We are going to take Oscar Fernandes and other like-minded ministers and other people are going to take up this issue with Prime Minister. And I am very confident because we need to move on because the global world has accepted this concept,” says Ramadoss.

Forcing law makers to keep up with the times are gay parades and now as the Prime Minister returns home, it is a group of squabbling ministers he is likely to face.

“It is not that we are having clash of interest here. It is only that we are having lack of understanding with each other and that will be sorted out by the Prime Minister,” says Ramadoss.

But the sources in the Law Ministry say homosexuality is not a question of morality but one of law because Section 377 of the IPC that bans homosexuality also provides protection against rape of minor boys and men.

The option the Government is now weighing is making rape laws gender neutral as well as changing laws on homosexuality to include lesbians.