Shashi Tharoor

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Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor

Triple talaq is already void in India after the Supreme Court ruling in the Shayara Bano case. This law isn’t even necessary. It has been brought in for a purely political purpose, to criminalise something that is already illegal. The insincerity of this law is breathtaking. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 21, 2019 Hibernated

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That’s the point. We aren’t defending triple talaq. We are opposing a law that does nothing to protect Muslim women but punishes Muslim men. It criminalizes their divorces, but exempts other men who desert their families w’out taking responsibility. That’s discriminatory. — PolitiTweet.org

By framing a law criminalising only muslim husbands for a void Act, without having a universally applicable law for… https://t.co/LYOY9gzA88

Posted June 21, 2019 Hibernated

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Law Minister @rsprasad said in response to our arguments that Parliament is a sovereign legislature& should not do the job of the courts. Does that mean we should pass blatantly unconstitutional laws & leave it to the Supreme Court to strike them down? What a failure that wld be! — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 21, 2019 Hibernated