Reforms have to come from within society: Asaduddin Owaisi

All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi said that the judgement is not unanimous but said that social change has to come from society as there will be difficulties in implementing it.

He said that his party would come out with its opinion after going through the entire judgement which ran into hundreds of pages.

“The number of instant talaq cases is very less, by gods grace the number will further come down in the near future. Instant talaq is, in fact, a bad practice. Even the All India Muslim Personal Law Board which has gone to different places in the country has urged people not to give talaq in a hurry as there is evil in it," Owaisi said.

“I reiterate that laws and judgements will not have the desired effect if the reforms have not come from the society. It is the Muslim community that must come forward and strengthen hands of AIMPLB in bringing social reforms

"It is fine that the Supreme Court has called triple talaq unconstitutional, but if any Muslim woman says that she is not willing to stay in a marriage, what she can do now," he asked.

Owaisi opined that the issue of drafting legislation will not arise now as it has become a minority opinion.

Answering a question on the BJP terming the judgement as historic for the freedom of Muslim women, Asaduddin said that whether the same BJP would do anything for those widows whose husbands were lynched by Gau Rakshaks.

"Why not a legislation, why not budgetary allocation for remarrying widows and abandoned women in the country, particularly those who occupy high echelons but leave their wives in dire straits,” he said.

"What is the fun of performing 'raksha bandan' by widows if you can’t get them re-married?" Owaisi asked.

DH News Service