‘Connect with Muslim women who benefited from scrapping of TT’
LUCKNOW: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday tasked women members of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) women wing in Uttar Pradesh to connect with those Muslim women who benefitted due to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to scrap the practice of instant triple talaq.
The chief minister was speaking at a BJP women’s wing working committee meet.
“Prime Minister Modi helped free several Muslim women from the ill effects of the instant divorce practice. The BJP women’s wing must connect with these women,” the CM said at a women’s wing function of the party.
Deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya who spoke before the chief minister, had also made a similar point and
urged the women’s wing to launch a mass connect campaign by talking about the various initiatives of the Modi government at the centre and Yogi Adityanath government in the state.
Yogi was referring to the Muslim women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill that became a law after being cleared by both
houses of parliament in July 2019.
The law provides for punishment including jail term for the husband accused of pronouncing instant triple talaq divorce on his wife. It was in 2016 that in the run up to the 2017 UP polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had first promised to abolish the practice of instant triple talaq at a public meeting in Mahoba in Bundelkhand. Yogi said that the Prime Minister promoted women in leadership positions.
“It was PM Modi who appointed maximum women as governors. For the first time, three women judges were appointed to the Supreme Court,” Yogi said.
“Do you remember how bad things were before 2017, especially in western Uttar Pradesh? Our daughters were unable to go to school. None knew if our daughters would return home safe. But today, women can go anywhere without any fear as criminals are either behind bars or on the run. The BJP women’s wing must talk about this to the people,” Yogi said.
He also referred to the ‘Mission Shakti’ campaign.UP BJP chief Swatantra Dev, state general secretary (organisation) Sunil Bansal also addressed the party women.