Congress’s Sushmita Dev says her party will scrap Triple Talaq Bill if voted to power 

Sushmita Dev.

Mahila Congress president Sushmita Dev said the focus of the Triple Talaq Bill was not to empower Muslim women but to penalize Muslim men. She said this, on Thursday, while speaking at the the All India Congress Committee’s minorities’ convention, in New Delhi, in the presence of Congress president Rahul Gandhi.

While promising to abolish the Triple Talaq law if the party was voted to power in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, she said, “I promise that the Congress party will come to power in 2019 and will scrap the Triple Talaq law. The law is just another weapon of the Modi government to arrest and harass Muslim men and put them in prison.”

Lok Sabha passed the Triple Talaq Bill in December 2018.

Highlighting the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, which has led to unrest in the northeast, the MP from Assam’s Silchar said, “The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill is creating unrest in Assam. The Congress is fighting against it. The bill is unconstitutional. We won’t let the government bring any law that is against the Constitution.”

Lok Sabha passed the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 in January this year.

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