Srinagar, Dec 31 (KNS): Former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on Monday lashed out at Government of India over the Triple Talaq bill, passed recently in Lok Sabha, saying that this bill is an assault on family structure and would lead to economic disturbance for men and women.
The reaction comes days after the Triple Talaq bill was passed in Lok Sabha.
As per Kashmir News Service (KNS) correspondent, addressing a news conference here at her Gupkar residence, Mehbooba said that “BJP has entered into our houses through Triple Talaq bill. Marriage is a contract and everybody has a right to decided it by its own way.”
She added that it’s Gandhi’s India and turning it into Zia-ul-Haq’s Pakistan is unacceptable, adding that Muslims across India and Jammu and Kashmir will stay with Gandhis’ secular democratic India.
Mehbooba further stated that “by brining this triple Talaq bill, the BJP will enter into our homes and it will disturb the men and women of Muslim community economically.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp Channel”
“Democracy is not run through brute majority but its consensus. Muslims accept the decisions of Supreme Court on invalidate of Triple Talaq unlike the Sabari mala verdict. Best is to empower Muslim women to be able to face the world independently in case of a breakup,” she said as per KNS correspondent.
She added that “I have gone through a broke marriage and I feel that woman face biggest challenge economically after her marriage is broken.”
Stating that the bill was passed despite there was no support from Muslim Member of parliament, Mehbooba said, “After creating divisions on religious and sectarian lines, BJP is now resorting to divide Muslim families through Triple Talaq bill.”
“With economic onslaught on Muslims through curbs on meat and leather, the social crises Triple Talaq bill can cause will impoverish them further,” she said. (KNS)