woman rights almost -equal to that of a man. A married Hindu male can • adopt without the consent of his wife. A Hindu woman, unmarried. widow or divorcee can adopt but a married woman can't adopt even with her husband's permission. The husband must adopt with her consent. The Act reduces the male's exclusive right of adoption and now under this Act both boys and girls may be adopted. Identity of caste of adoptive parents and children, which was under the Shastric Hindu law, has also been abolished by the Act. Legal Frame .work Because of the lack of "uniform family code" minority women are the victims of discrimination between Muslims and Hindus in Bangladesh and in reality we observe this discrimination affects Hindu women in their socio-economic life. Hindu law does not allow dissolution. of marriage. So practically divorce is unknown to Hindu law. Change of religion or loss of caste or the adultery of either party or the fact of wife deserting her husband and becoming a prostitute does not operate as dissolution of marriage. In the context of Bangladesh, participation of minority women in mainstream politics are far beybhd the reality where majority Muslim has limited access to politics mainly because of religion, social, cultural, educational and economic conditions. Out of 330 Parliament MeMbers only one Hindu women are the MP and she is nominated not elected. In local government there are very few number minority women, are either elected or nominated but absence of government policy discourage the women to get into the politics. .