By Ovais gull
Srinagar: Former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti on Monday criticised Government of India over its Triple Talaq bill and said that Gandhi’s India should not be turned into Zia ul Haq’s Pakistan.
Mehbooba was addressing a presser in Srinagar.
” Triple Talaq bill was passed despite no Muslim MP supported the bill,” Mufti said, adding that ‘by passing this bill, they have entered into our homes’.
The revised bill to make instant Triple Talaq ,punishable offence will be placed in Rajya Sabha for debate and passing.
Mehbooba Mufti said that triple talaq bill is an ‘attack on Muslim family structure’ after the Government of India’s Economic onslaught on muslim economy by curbing beef and leather.
“After economic onslaught on Muslim by curbing meat and leather, now there is an attack on Family structure of Muslims. By this bill families are being divided and both man and woman will be hit economically,” she said.
She said that Muslims that stayed back in India and did not go to Pakistan, stayed back in Gandhi’s secular India but changing names of places, distorting history, pushing Muslims to backwardness, ‘this is onslaught on Muslims’.
“Sachar committees reports is already there presenting grim picture of Muslims. What they are doing is disservice to nation,” she said.
“They never had a good going with Gandhi and now they cant follow even Vajpayee,” she said.
“Don’t interfere in our religion, otherwise you will have to reap its consequences in future,” she warned.
The bill, passed by the Lok Sabha, faces the real test in the upper house of parliament where the government lacks the numbers. Contending that the bill targets the Muslim community, the opposition wants it go to a joint parliamentary committee for further scrutiny.
The Congress said it won’t allow the bill to be passed in its current form, and has made it mandatory for its lawmakers to attend today’s session.
“Marriage is a contract,in case they don’t want to be together they can take a decision unanimously after thorough deliberations,” Mehbooba said.
