The Rashtriya Muslim Manch (MRM) women’s wing has started a campaign to end the Islamic divorce practice of ‘triple talaq’. The Sangh Parivar affiliated organisation is using policy, not protest in this fight, by speaking for formal marriage and divorce registration. A senior Muslim RSS functionary told the Hindustan Times that a June meeting will conclude plans to stop the ‘triple talaq’. “Just as registration of births and deaths is mandatory, marriages and divorces should also be compulsorily registered. Our religion does not allow a man to end a marriage by merely repeating talaq thrice. There is a provision for counseling,” said Shehnaz Afzal, head of the women’s wing of MRM.

The RSS has been demanding a uniform civil code for many years, and it was also a part of the BJP manifesto.

The triple talaq finds reference in Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act, 1937, but many claim it has been misinterpreted: “There can be no nikah without the presence of a lawyer and two witnesses, how is it then that a marriage can end with no such obligation? In the name of religion, women are being discriminated.”

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