Describing as historic the ordinance making triple talaq a punishable offence, BJP president Amit Shah said on Wednesday that it was also a matter of introspection for political parties that forced Muslim women to suffer to preserve their vote bank.
He hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the Cabinet’s nod to the ordinance. In a tweet, he said the decision would allow Muslim women to live with dignity.
The BJP said the government’s decision to bring an ordinance to make the practice of instant triple talaq a penal offence was a huge step towards “empowering women.”
Taking a dig at the Congress, the party’s national spokesperson Sambit Patra said Kapil Sibal, a leader of the Opposition party, had defended this practice in the Supreme Court. For all these years, the Congress politicised the triple talaq issue for vote bank politics, he said at a press conference at the party office here.
Ishrat Jahan, a petitioner in the triple talaq case, welcomed the decision as a big step towards “empowering Muslim women.” Jahan, who has a 13-year-old daughter and a seven-year-old son, moved the court after she was divorced by her husband over phone from Dubai by uttering ‘talaq’ thrice consecutively in 2014.
