Law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad was recently photographed being handed sweets by gratefully smiling Muslims for his apparently bold act of pushing through the bill banning instant triple talaq. The law is being projected as the Modi government’s supreme act of benevolence towards suffering Muslim women, labouring under the ravages of their nasty talaq-uttering husbands. So will the ban on instant triple talaq win the Muslims over to BJP? Unlikely.
Banning instant triple talaq is about gender justice, not religion, thundered the law minister, showing a crusading zeal the government hasn’t shown with any other law so far. Congress has been put in its place; where it had prevaricated and shamefully bowed to maulvis and maulanas on the Shah Bano case, Read More
