<br/>Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday accused the Congress of pursuing vote bank politics and not gender justice, saying it has followed the same politics from Shah Bano case in 1986 to that of Shayara Bano in 2017.<br/><br/>The senior BJP leader said the Congress could have made its suggestions on the bill in Parliament during a debate but it saw to this that no meaningful debate occur as it was driven by vote bank politics.<br/><br/>He said, the Congress needs to explain why it took one stand in the Lok Sabha and another in the Rajya Sabha as it "fully supported" the bill in the former and did not press even for division on amendments. <br/><br/>To the demand of the Congress that the bill be sent to a select committee, Prasad said the committee was designed to make it ineffective. <br/><br/>Hundreds of instant triple talaq have happened even after the Supreme Court order, he said, adding that it happened even today.
News On AIR | January 6, 2018 8:04 AM
Law Minister RS Prasad slams Cong for pursuing vote bank politics over Triple Talaq