The Lok Sabha on Thursday passed the Muslim Women (Protection of rights on Marriage) Bill, 2018.
Almost all opposition parties were demanding that the bill be sent to the Joint Select Committee(JSC). The opposition parties staged a walkout after the government said no to the opposition's demand of sending the bill to JSC. The bill is passed with 245 votes.
Earlier in the Lok Sabha the Union Law Minister said that almost 20 Islamic countries have made Triple Talaq an offence. He also said that our neighbouring Islamic state, Pakistan is also thinking of making Triple Talaq an offence imitating us.
Before Prasad, NCP MP Supriya Sule, Textile Minister Smriti Irani, BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi, AIMIMN MP Asaduddin Owaisi, TDP MP Jaydev Galla, Minority affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and several other members discussed the bill.
Smriti Irani said that even after the Supreme Court's order there have been 400 incidents of Talaq-e-Biddat. While Supriya Sule said that the debate is about the downtrodden woman.
Lok Sabha was adjourned till two in the afternoon after continuous disruption and sloganeering by the opposition.
GVL Narsimha Rao says that the Triple Talaq bill will bring justice to all the Muslim women.
The quesiton hour in progress was stalled by the opposition as MPs were asking questions to Union Civil Aviation Minister Jayant Sinha. But Mallikarjun Kharge continued to ask for JPC prob in Rafale and accused the Government of looting the public money.
The lower house of the Parliament was adjourned after the opposition again created ruckus. Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge said religious matters should not be interfered with.
Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress on discussion on #TripleTalaqbill in Lok Sabha today: We will take part in the discussion and keep forward our opinion. We will appeal to the govt that it should not interfere in a religious matter. pic.twitter.com/ThQ4U5fxz5
— ANI (@ANI) December 27, 2018
Later the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2018, was introduced in the parliament and was passed by the Rajya Sabha. According to the bill, 'Tala-e-Biddat' is illegal and is an offence punishable with imprisonment up to three years and fine, and triable by a Judicial Magistrate of the first class. The bill also makes the practice a cognizable offence which means police will have power to arrest without any warrant if it comes to the notice of in-charge of a police station.
SAD MP Prem Singh Chnadumajra says, "We need such a bill. Many members said that Triple Talaq is a wrong practice but said that it should not be mad e criminal practice. This is not done. A perpetrator has to be punished."
BJD MP from Odisha, Rabindra Kumar Jena says, "We are against the practice of Triple Talaq but oppose the punishment to the husband. If the bill is brought in present form it has full potential that it will backfire."
Senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge asks government does the provision of imprisonment also lies in Hindu marriage acts?
AIADMK asks that the bill be sent to parliamentary committee.
"Hum shadi chalane ki baat karte hai ." (We always talk of preserving the marriage).
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