MODI CREATED HISTORY BY REPEAL OF TRIPLE TALAQ ISLAMIC CUSTOM

30th July 2019 – Historic Day for 90 million Indian Muslim Women due to the passage of triple talaq bill in India’s Parliament’s Upper House because a historical wrong was corrected by the enactment .  It is about restoring honour and dignity to Muslim women. It is about establishing gender equality.

It is important to analyse Congress’s role on triple talaq through the prism of India’s recent political history. Congress, which had more than 400 MPs in the Lok Sabha three decades ago, had a great opportunity to change the historical wrong to Muslim women in the Shah Bano case.

In 1985, the Supreme Court had ruled in favour of triple talaq victim Shah Bano, made her entitled to an allowance of Rs 500 per month, and had said that the order was in conformity with the Sharia law. However, instead of implementing it, Congress led by then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi succumbed to pressure from clerics represented by Muslim personal board and the lure of vote bank politics and enacted a law to nullify the court’s order.

As a pretest against Rajiv Gandhi’s  appeasement politics of Muslim community, even the left-leaning legal luminary, former SC judge Justice VR Krishna Iyer had strongly condemned the action of Rajiv.  Even Arif Mohammed Khan, a minister in the then Congress government who had termed the court decision as fair, resigned in protest against the government’s decision. Rajiv Gandhi had made Khan believe that he would implement the progressive SC verdict, but, had backed out much to the embarrassment of Khan.

The issue was remained in cold storage for more than 30 years and when Modi Government was voted to power with full majority during 2014, affected Muslim Women had become embolden to approach the supreme court to put an end to the draconian triple talaq muslim cusotm and to their great relief, the Supreme  Court on August 22, 2017 declared the practice of triple talaq as unconstitutional and stated that it was vocative of Article 14 and 21 of the Indian Constitution and triple talaq needs to go. The three judges Justices Kurian Joseph, R F Nariman and U U Lalit on the 5 judge Constitution bench decided against triple talaq while two judges  JS Khehar and Justice Abdul Nazeer ruled in favor.

On 30th July 2019, Rajya Sabha had also passed the Muslim Women (Protection Rights on Marriage) Bill 2019, after the same was passed by the Lok Sabha . With this passage the ordinance was replaced by this bill. 

Now the practice of triple talaq was a criminal offence.  As per the proposed law, the victim in such case can seek the custody of her minor children as well as maintenance from her husband by approaching a magistrate after she has registered a complaint with the police. The Law further states, that triple talaq in any form — spoken, in writing or by electronic means such as email, SMS or WhatsApp — would be banned.

In the opposition, Congress, Trinamool Congress and Bahujan Samajwadi parties are headed by women leaders. While Mayawati party had abstained in Rajya Sabha at the time of voting, both Sonia and Didi had not done justice in supporting the triple talaq bill or at least they, as women, should have sympathized with Muslim women being subject to indignity, insecurity and inhuman practices of forcing them to family prostitution under Nikah Halala. It should have been humane on the parts of Sonia and Didi, if at least their party MPs. abstained at the time of voting just like Mayawati. History will never forget and forgive their actions and they should not have succumbed to  Muslims vote bank appeasement politics.

Pappu Rahul who had started his innings as the President of Congress Party with his pet slogan of ‘Empowerment of Women, Gender Justice etc.’ could not have the courage to set right the wrong done by his father in Shah Bano Case some 30 years back as the PM with more than 400 MPs. Yes, Rahul had once again missed the Bus and had also lost the support of 90 million Muslim women.

Modi, on the other hand, irrespective of losing Muslims support, had done justice to 90 million Indian Muslim Women who may now feel grateful to our PM Modi, but, for him, they might not have got justice, dignity and security in their marital life.

MODI HAD NOW BECOME A MESSAIAH OF 90 MILLION INDIAN MUSLIM WOMEN!