Ruling out any move to bring an ordinance to enforce the new Triple Talaq Act, Union minister of Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said that the government was confident that opposition parties will support the Bill and the same would be passed in the Budget session.
“We are confident that all political parties will support Triple Talaq Bill in the coming Budget session of Parliament. There is no need for an Ordinance and I am sure that the Bill will be passed in the next session with consensus,” Naqvi said in lucknow on Thursday.
Addressing media persons in lucknow after winding up the day long “ Vikas Samanvay Baithak’ attended by Minority Affairs ministers and officials of nine north Indian states, Naqvi said all parties have supported the Triple Talaq Bill in lok Sabha and this too will happen in Rajya Sabha.
The Union minister said that the withdrawal of Haj subsidy was good for Muslims as it did not benefited them at all. “It was merely an abuse of Muslims through this nominal subsidy. The money which was earlier used for subsidy would now be used for imparting education to Muslim girls,” said he.
Naqvi said that the government’s policy of ‘empowerment without appeasment; has ensured that minorities were also becoming an equal partner of country’s development. “Participation of minorities in Central government jobs which was about 5 per cent in 2015, has gone up to 10 per cent in 2017. In this year’s Civil Services exam, about 125 minority youths have been selected, of which 52 are Muslims,” said the Union minister.
However, Naqvi was critical on politicians demanding withdrawal of subsidy on Mansarovar Yatra and Kumbh Mela.
“ These people are just doing politics to gain media mileage. It is the Constitutional duty of all governments to protect citizens and this government was also doing so. In Haj too, the government was committed to providing all medical facilities to the pilgrims which will be done,” he said without taking any names.
When his attention was drawn to the demand of UP Shia Central Waqf Board chairman Waseem Rizvi on banning madarsas for their alleged terror link, the Union minister said ,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath have clarified the issue and there should be no confusion over it.”
Earlier in the day, CM Yogi Adityanath while inaugurating the meeting had said that there was no question of banning madarsas and instead called for its modernisation and turn them into centres providing quality education.
The Union minister said that the co-ordination meeting was serious about dropout of Muslim students from schools, particularly of girls.
“It is surprising that the drop out rate of Muslim children from schools was around 80 to 90 per cent. We have to work on it to launch educational empowerment among Muslims,” he said.
The Union minister said that his department had successfully launched GST facilitators and sanitary supervisor courses where minority youths were getting 100 per cent jobs.