New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor introduced a private member's bill in the Lok Sabha on Friday to criminalise marital rape and asserted that India must uphold its constitutional values and move from "no means no" to "only yes means yes".

Tharoor also introduced two other private member's bills in the Lower House of Parliament -- to amend the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 and establish a State and Union Territories Reorganisation Commission to recommend the reorganisation of states and Union territories to the Centre.

In a post on X, the MP from Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram said criminalising marital rape is an urgent necessity in India's legal framework and introduced his private member's bill to amend the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and remove the m

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