Ideally the issue ought to be subjected to a referendum.
However, it is an expensive way to feel the pulse.
It would sound much more appropriate to sound out the House and put the issue to a vote.
Since UPA is a wide-spectrum platform, unlike the Rajiv government that enjoyed brute majority that denuded the muslim women through Shah Bano enactment in total and unashamed defiance of the Apex, a vote would logically reflect a referendum, or at least one can safely think so, though buying votes in Bharat Varsh is a very viable proposition for the wily politician like the lady who is the super PM of the nation, with no mandate at all,
The UPA itself is a fraud with the people of Bharatvarsh.