Shinde defers issuing ordinance on gay sex

Responding to a query on whether the government would issue an ordinance on gay rights issue, Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde said, "Not now. Our (Congress) vice-president and president have already spoken on the issue". Taking a clear stand, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi, had earlier vented their disappointment over SC verdict criminalizing gay sex.