Seeking to corner the Congress on the issue of women empowerment, the government on Tuesday, 17 July, urged the main opposition party to join hands to pass the bills on women's reservation, triple talaq and nikah halala in Parliament, reported PTI.
Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad wrote a letter to Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday, suggesting that his party and the BJP join hands to get the three bills, as well as the measure on providing constitutional status to the National Commission for Backward Classes, passed in Parliament.
“This bill (Women’s Empowerment Bill) should be passed along with anti-triple talaq and nikah halala bills,” Prasad wrote.
He was responding to a letter by Gandhi to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to bring the bill on granting 33 percent reservation to women in Lok Sabha and state assemblies.