Muslim women sign RSS-backed petition against triple talaq

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Over a million Muslims from across the country – mostly women – have signed a petition moved by RSS-affiliated Muslim body Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM) against the practice of triple talaq. The Muslim body – RSS pracharak Indresh Kumar is the liason from the Sangh’s side who ‘guides’ the MRM – has also called for a nationwide discussion on the issue that involves all the stakeholders.

‘This is a problem of the community and the stakeholders within the community as well as the representatives from the state and the government must come and sit together to start a debate on this so that Muslim women can claim a human status.

As the party itself puts it, one of the major contributing factors, as it claims, in its victory was a definite support from Muslim women who were moved by the party’s stance on triple talaq as a repressive practice that needed to be done away with.

‘Three factors, I suppose defined our victory in the UP polls: First was Ujjwala scheme that provided LPG cylinders to poor women; second was construction of toilets under the Swachh Bharat programme, which also appealed to women; and the last but not the least, our stand on triple talaq,’ said Siddharth Nath Singh, party secretary and newly elected MLA from Allahabad West.