The Supreme Court is to finally give its verdict in the Triple Talaq case. The legal adjudication of the triple talaq issue has been pushed unto the court by the Modi government. It has been on the agenda of the BJP for a long time. However, now with Modi going strong politically, and the need of muslim votes being vetoed in the hustings, the agenda had gained imminency and urgency.
Before the Modi era BJP’s stand on triple talaq was seen as an extension of its pro Hindu posturing. It also was seen as a move to establish the party’s credo of opposition to pseudo secularism, of which legal -religious codes were seen as an extension.
However, Modi has given the whole issue a new inflection.Modi government is now pursuing its agenda of abolishing triple talaq as an progressive move of gender equality and women’s rights. It has been holding that the personal rights of Muslim women are being trampled by instant talaq, and that the practise is very much against the grain of Indian Constitution.
The Muslim community, on the other hand is very defensive. All India Muslim Personal Law Board has rather cautiously enunciated that the practise is bad, but that the courts and the government should not meddle in the affairs of the community. It has promised to institute measures to give women rights to counter the evils of triple talaq.
But now the matter is in the court, and once the judgement is pronounced it will open a Pandora box of litgation for polygamy and nikaaah halaala. This is sure to put the Muslim community, especially the orthodoxy on the backfoot
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