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Khaithal/New Delhi, May 10 (PTI) After their threat to lay siege to his house, Congress lawmaker Navin Jindal today attended a Khap Mahapanchayat in Khaithal as support for the caste councils swelled with INLD supremo O P Chautala backing their demand for a ban on marriages within the same lineage. Chautala, the former Haryana Chief Minister, met Home Minister P Chidambaram in New Delhi and requested him to amend the Hindu Marriage Act with a view to banning marriages within the same lineage or clan. "We are opposed to inter-caste marriages which are not right scientifically and medically. The INLD was the first to support this view," he told reporters. Notorious for their diktats prohibiting wedlocks within the same clan or villages, the Khap panchayats, often flayed for handing out medieval justice, yesteday received support from Congress MP and industrialist Navin Jindal. Jindal told a Mahapanchayat in Kaithal today that he would vigorously take up their demands with the Congress High Command and Bhupinder Singh Hooda government in Haryana. His assurance came after the Mahapanchayat handed over a memorandum to him listing their demands. Jindal, who is elected to Lok Sabha from Kurukshetra, yesterday showered praise on the Khap panchayats for rendering yeoman service to society by resolving people''s problems even before the present day system came into existence. In a letter to Khap representatives, he acknowledged the existence of these panchayats since the time of great rulers like Ashoka and Harshvardhan and said these had always given a new direction to society. On Jindal observations vis-a-vis Khap panchayats, the Congress said it was an expression of opinion by an honourable Member of Parliament and there was no change in the party''s stand on the matter. "The Congress'' stand is crystal clear. No customary law or practice can possibly be excused or condoned in any manner if it involves killing of any kind in the name of honour, tradition or heritage," spokesman Abhishek Singhvi told reporters here.
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