Modi urges Muslims not to politicise triple talaq

New Delhi, April 29

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today urged Muslims not to “politicise” the issue of triple talaq and requested them to come forward and find a “solution” to it.

“I urge the people of Muslim community not to politicise the issue of triple talaq,” Modi said while speaking on the occasion of Basava Jayanti. “I request them to come forward and find a solution,” the PM said.

Modi said he would fight against the sufferings of the Muslim daughters in the country. “My government will bring an end to this archaic law,” he added.

He said reform has always come to “our society from within, whenever required”. He expressed confidence that reformers would emerge from within the Muslim community itself to put an end to the “pain suffered by some Muslim women because of the practice of triple talaq”.

Earlier in April, the PM had raised the triple talaq issue during the national executive meeting of his party in Bhubaneswar. He had dubbed triple talaq a “bad social practice”.

A Constitution Bench will hear the plea challenging the validity of the triple talaq, “nikah halala” and polygamy among the Muslims from May 11. The Supreme Court was earlier told by the Centre Government that the practice “violates Muslim women’s right to equality and dignity”. 

Opposing the practice, the government had described it as “patriarchal values and traditional notions about the role of women in society”.

Under triple talaq, a Muslim man can instantly divorce his wife by repeating “talaq” thrice. As per “nikah halala”, a woman divorcee has to marry someone else and consummate that marriage before getting a divorce to remarry her earlier husband. — IANS