Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy said that the NDA government will get the Triple Talaq bill passed in Rajya Sabha too. “We will see who opposes it there,” he reportedly said. On Thursday, the bill criminalising instant divorce by Muslim men was passed by the Lok Sabha after a heated debate.
“We have passed the triple talaq bill today in Lok Sabha and we will get it passed in Rajya Sabha too. We will see who opposes it there. Though we do not enough number, we will do some tricks and get it passed (in Rajya Sabha),” said Swamy, a Rajya Sabha MP.
Adding further, the BJP leader said, “We will do the same for (nikah) ‘halala’ also as we want to abolish the injustice being meted out to women”. Under ‘nikah halala’, a man cannot remarry his former wife unless she marries another man, consummates the marriage, gets a divorce and observes a period of separation called ‘iddat’.