Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel has said his government will study the possibility of a system making parental approval mandatory in love marriages if it is constitutionally feasible.
He said this in response to a demand by certain sections of the Patidar community that parental consent be made mandatory in love marriages.
Addressing an event organised in Mehsana on Sunday by the Sardar Patel Group, an outfit representing the Patidar community, CM Bhupendra Patel said state Health Minister Rushikesh Patel told him to get a study done into the incidents of girls eloping for marriage so that a system is created where the consent of parents is made mandatory (for marriages).