“Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma says, “No second marriage of State govt employess without govt’s permission””, Organiser, October 27, 2023:
“As an Assam government employee, from the point of our service rule, he is not entitled to enter into a second marriage. However, if some religion allows you to do so, even then as per the rule, you have to get permission from the state government. It might give you or may not give you. After the death of the employee, two wives fight with each other over pension issues and we find it very difficult to settle those,”
Himanta Biswa said. He also said that this rule was there earlier, but we did not enforce it. Now, we have decided to enforce it. The order dated October 20 issued by Niraj Verma, additional chief secretary of the personnel department conveyed the same to all government employees.
The remarks came against the backdrop of the government announcement in September to bring a law in the state assembly that will ban polygamy. Polygamy is the practice of marrying more than one person.
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