Ishrat Jahan, one of the petitioners in the triple talaq case, has joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in West Bengal. Reports said she joined the party at their Howrah office on Saturday.
Ishrat was one of the five litigators who went to court against the controversial Islamic practice. She was allegedly divorced by her husband over phone in 2014.
The Supreme Court had on August 22 struck down the instant triple talaq and asked the government to frame a law in six months.
A leading news website, in its report on Sunday, quoted Ishrat as saying that the top court verdict has proved to be more of a bane as she had been socially ostracised and there is a growing sense of insecurity about her future.
“My in-laws want me to withdraw the case and some neighbours are threatening me because they think I have spoken against the Muslim religious law," she was quoted as saying.
BJP Mahila Morcha president Locket Chatterjee said she would urge the Centre to give a job to Ishrat as she is going through a financial crisis.
The government has introduced a Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill which makes triple talaq punishable by up to three years imprisonment for the husband.
The bill was already passed by the Lok Sabha and would be taken up in the Rajya Sabha next week. The bill seeks to make instant triple talaq in any form spoken, in writing or by electronic means such as email, SMS and WhatsApp as bad or illegal and void.
