Call In Parliament To Repeal Places Of Worship Act

The Places of Worship Act 1991 maintains the religious status of any place of worship should stay the way it was on August 15, 1947. Section 3 of the Act bars the conversion of places of worship. The Ram Janambhoomi case -- pending since before Independence -- was the exception. Today BJP Rajya Sabha MP Harnath Singh demanded the repeal of the Places Of Worship Act, 1991 claiming that it's a violation of rights equality and secularism as enshrined in the constitution. Watch panelists decode on The Last Word with Marya Shakil.