Muslim women shouldn't be deprived of constitutional rights: Amit Shah

May 06, 2017 19:58

In India, every woman, irrespective of caste, creed and religion should enjoy constitutional rights, but triple talaq often takes away the right of Muslim women, Bharatiya Janata Party national president Amit Shah said on Saturday.

We are against talaq and the party's stand on the issue has already been conveyed to the Supreme Court," he said at a press conference in Agartala.

Shah is on a two-day visit to Marxist-ruled Tripura to strengthen the party base in the state.

Claiming that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has emerged as one of the most popular leaders in the country after Independence, the BJP chief said the party has been "registering emphatic poll victories in many states namely

Maharashtra, Haryana, Uttarkhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Assam, Goa and Manipur."

"The poll success of the BJP indicates Modi's rising popularity and it will continue in the years to come," he said, adding there was no single allegation of corruption against the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government during the past three years "while Congress-led United Progressive Alliance regime had witnessed corruption amounting to Rs 12 lakh crore."

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