Don’t tinker with Sharia, Maya cautions Modi Revisit triple talaq: Sangh to Muslims

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati on Tuesday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to force his opinion on people of any particular religion.

The BSP, which has been eyeing Muslim votes in Uttar Pradesh, criticised Mr Modi over his stand on “triple talaq”, which deals with divorce under the Muslim personal law.

At rally in UP’s Mahoba district on Monday, the prime minister had said “triple talaq” should be abolished.

Ms Mayawati, in a statement, accused the BJP and the Centre of tinkering with issues related to the Shariat.

Shariat is an Islamic canonical law prescribing both religious and secular duties and sometimes penalties.

“The BJP government led by Narendra Modi has now started a new controversy over Muslim personal law, ‘triple talaq’ and common civil code before the assembly elections in some states to serve its political purpose. The BSP condemns the move,” she said. Hyderabad, Oct. 25: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Tuesday said the Muslim community should ponder over the continuance of “triple talaq”.

“The ‘triple talaq’ issue is an internal problem of Muslims and in this context the Muslim community should seriously think over it. Muslim women have gone to court on this issue,” RSS all-India general secretary Bhayyaji Joshi told reporters in Hyderabad.

“In the present era there should not be any kind of gender-based discrimination,” he said.

“The Muslim community should also think and decide on it. We feel that there is a need that the court should also give (its) views on this matter through human perspective,” Mr Joshi said on the concluding day of the three-day All-India executive council meeting of the RSS.