BJP leader and triple talaq petitioner Ishrat Jahan on Wednesday, 17 July, demanded protection, citing threat to her life, news agency ANI reported. Jahan stated that she lives alone with her son and said, “anything can happen to me any time.”
“Everyone said I should leave the house on my own else they will push me out of the house forcefully. I am receiving death threats. I demand protection. I live alone with my son, anything can happen to me any time,” ANI quoted Jahan as saying.
Jahan’s landlord reportedly asked her to vacate her house in Howrah, West Bengal, allegedly for having attended a Hindu religious ceremony while wearing a hijab.
“A huge crowd of people gathered outside my house and asked me why I went to attend Hanuman Chalisa event wearing hijab. When I asked them what’s wrong with that, they told me that I shouldn’t have worn hijab to a Hindu religious ceremony,” Jahan reportedly said.
“They told me that I am spoiling the name for all Muslim women,” she added.
Ishrat Jahan is an anti-triple talaq crusader from West Bengal, and joined the BJP in December last year. She was one of the five petitioners whose plea in the Supreme Court led to a historic verdict on the issue of triple talaq in 2017.
It was widely believed that TMC Supremo Mamata Banerjee's alienation of Ishrat and her silence on the issue of triple talaq is what had helped the BJP convince Ishrat to join the party back in 2018.
(With inputs from ANI)
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