PM Modi praises government's pro-women initiatives including anti-'triple talaq' law

By: WE Staff | Wednesday, 13 October 2021

Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated that the country is continuing to follow his government's 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas, Sabka Prayas' motto, and praised the government's actions to empower and protect women.

PM Modi gave a virtual address at the 28th NHRC Foundation Day programme, praising the government's pro-women initiatives including the anti-'triple talaq' law and the 26-week maternity leave, and stating that viewing human rights through the political spectrum undermines both these rights and democracy.

"Some people try to dent country's image in name of human rights, we need to be alert about it," PM said while warning against those misusing human rights framework to tarnish the image of the country.

He went on to say that the government gave Muslim women new rights by passing a law prohibiting triple talaq, and that India is doing what many large countries in the world have failed to achieve by providing 26 weeks of paid maternity leave to working women.

"For decades, Muslim women were demanding laws against Triple Talaq. We provided new rights to them by forming a law against Triple Talaq. Our govt also freed Muslim women from the compulsion of 'Mahram' during Haj," PM Modi said at the event.

Triple talaq, immediate divorce, and talaq-e-mughallazah (irrevocable divorce) were all terms used by Muslims in India, particularly those who followed the Hanafi Sunni Islamic schools of thought. It made it legal for any Muslim man to divorce his wife by saying the word talaq (Arabic for "divorce") three times in oral, written, or, more recently, electronic form.