Arun Jaitley Lashes out on Congress Over Triple Talaq Bill

Arun Jaitley criticizes the Congress for its promise to withdraw the Triple Talaq Bill.

"Unfortunately, when human conscience should have been repelled while reading this news in the morning newspapers; the AICC President Rahul Gandhi and his coterie, while addressing a minority convention, promised to withdraw the bill pending in parliament, penalizing Triple Talaq," Mr Jaitley said in a Facebook post titled 'Does the Bareilly "Nikah-Halala" not shock your conscience?''

He was referring to a case in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, where a Muslim woman was twice divorced by her husband through Triple Tal.

"History has repeated itself, neither as a satire nor as a tragedy. It has repeated itself with a mindset of cruelty. The late Rajiv Gandhi committed a monumental mistake in legislatively overturning the Shah Bano judgment of the Supreme Court which guaranteed maintenance to all Muslim women. He allowed deserted women to be driven to poverty and destitution," the Minister said in a blog. "Thirty-two years later, his son has taken another retrograde step to drive them not merely into destitution but also to live a life which is an antithesis of human existence. The Muslim woman in Bareilly has been forced into animal existence.

"Votes are important, so is fairness. Political opportunists only look at the next day's headlines. Nation-builders look at the next century." he lashed on opposition

" Jaitley's remarks come a day after the Congresswomen wing chief Sushmita Dev promised to scrap the law banning Triple Talaq if the party comes to power in the coming Lok Sabha elections.