The Centre is likely to take “a major step” to ban triple talaq after the ongoing Assembly polls, Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said and dared the Samajwadi Party, Congress and BSP to make clear their stand on the contentious issue.
Insisting that the issue is not related to religion but involves respect and dignity of women, he said the government “respects faith but worship and social evil cannot co-exist.” “The government may take a major step to ban triple talaq after the U.P. Assembly polls,” he said at a press conference in Ghaziabad on Saturday.
The Centre is committed to ending the “evil social practice” of triple talaq, Mr Prasad said. “We are the only party which respects women. Neither do other parties offer a good place to women nor do they respect them,” he claimed.
