RSS toes Rajnath line on homosexuality issue

December 16, 2013 23:11

RSS today toed the line taken by BJP President Rajnath Singh in support of the Supreme Court judgement against homosexuality but maintained that the issue can be debated by the political parties.

"(Section) 377 (of IPC) is about unnatural relationship. There can be a debate over the Section as proposed by BJP," RSS leader Ram Madhav said on Twitter.

Earlier, BJP and RSS had been silent about their stand on the issue till Singh said yesterday that homosexuality is unnatural.

"If an all-party meeting is called, we will support Section 377 as we believe that homosexuality is an unnatural act. We cannot support it," Singh said.

Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh had yesterday demanded that RSS should make its stand clear on the Supreme Court verdict supporting Section 377 of IPC.

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