MODI CREATED HISTORY BY REPEAL OF TRIPLE TALAQ ISLAMIC CUSTOM
30 th 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 o