“For example, they are saying live-in relationships be registered. So if two people decide to live in, they must go and register. Suppose they have a fight after six months and they break up. They will again have to go and say we have had a fight that we have broken up,” the MP from Tamil Nadu’s Sivaganga said.
This is absurd and this is exactly how theocratic states like Iran behave, he said.
“They would say on a dry day, if you have a drink in your house, a policeman can come and prosecute. Then they will go one step further and say today there is no non-vegetarian to be had. So if you eat chicken curry in your house, then again, there is a violation,” Chidambaram said.
So, they are entering the realm of personal behaviour in private spaces and that is “very dangerous.”
“This is how a theocratic country like Iran behaves. So if we also behave like that, this would become like Hindutva Iran. That is what I have said and also that Uttarakhand is a test lab for that,” he said.
