Mumbai: Responding to Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah's claim in the Rajya Sabha that Triple Talaq bill is aimed at protecting Muslim women, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad hit back saying the government is dividing husband and wife.
"You divided Shias and Sunnis, now you are dividing husband and wife. You put the husband in jail and tell the wife you have saved her", Ghulam Nabi Azad said in the Rajya Sabha on Monday.
BJP president Amit Shah in his debut speech in the Rajya Sabha raised the triple talaq issue once again, accusing the Congress of stalling the Muslim Women Protection of Rights on Marriage Bill - popularly known as the Triple Talaq bill.
"For 70 years after the Independence Muslim women were at the loggerheads and suppressed wandering from one court to the other seeking justice.
“By bringing the triple talaq bill we wanted to end decades of injustice. But, the Congress stalled it. Congress repeated what it had done with the Shah Bano case", Amit Shah said in the Rajya Sabha.
However, Ghulam Nabi Azad hit back saying, "“We oppose instant triple talaq, but we do not support criminalising it,” Ghulam Nabi Azad said.
"You put the husband in jail and tell the wife you have saved her", he reiterated.
The Triple Talaq bill which has been passed in the Lok Sabha sent the husband using instant triple talaq in jail for three years. The opposition parties, including some of the BJP allies, demanded amendments in the proposed bill when it was introduced in the Rajya Sabha.
The Modi government however is not ready for the amendments and wants to pass the bill in its original disputed form.
Interestingly some of the women activists who were at the forefront fighting against the instant triple talaq are of the view that the bill if passed in its existing form will be a hell for the Muslim women.
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