New Delhi

The government and many women’s organization will hold token commemoration functions  today to observe the Muslim Women Rights Day.

Two years ago, Indian parliament had passed the law that bans the lopsided practice of triple talaq - a Muslim man’s right to divorce his wife by simply saying Talaq (Divorce) to her three times in a row.

The practice already stood banned in several Muslim countries including Pakistan and Bangladesh as India took time to give justice to women.

Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi since the implementation of the anti triple talq law, there has been a significant decline in Triple Talaq cases. Muslim women across the country have overwhelmingly welcomed this law though the leaders like Asadudin Owaisi had opposed it in the Paliament saying it amounts to interference in Muslim personal law.

The main function on Muslim Women’s Rights day is being organized in the capital and it will be attended by Naqvi, Women and Child Development minister Smriti Irani, and Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav.

Naqvi said that the Government has strengthened “self-reliance, self-respect and self-confidence” of the Muslim women of the country and protected their constitutional, fundamental and democratic rights by bringing the law against the Triple Talaq.