New Delhi, June 29: Government today treaded cautiously on any move to legalise homosexuality with the Union Health Ministry calling for more debate and a “broad consensus” while the Law Ministry said nothing will be done in a hurry to repeal Section 377 of the IPC which criminalises this practice.
“I can simply say that there should be more debate– public debate, Parliament debate. There has to be consensus.
The negative and positive has to be evaluated and then a conclusion should be evolved,” Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said at a press conference in New Delhi when asked about the Centre’s move to have a re-look at Section 377 which criminalises homosexuality.
Asserting that there could not be a better forum than Parliament to debate the issue, he said, “…there should be a total consensus.
–PTI