The BJP government’s renewed push for the uniform civil code, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent remarks about instant triple talaq, have again put a practice criminalised four years ago under the media glare. But what’s missing from much of the debates are crucial questions surrounding the triple talaq law – which the government had called a “historic reform” for the emancipation of Muslim women.
The opposition, which had questioned the need for the practice to be made a criminal offence considering the risk of it further depriving abandoned Muslim women of a safety net, has now adopted silence. And no party seems keen to accommodate the triple talaq law in the 2024 campaign.
