As Congress is adamant on its stand demanding amendment on the bill, Central Government plans to move the bill to select committee. Opposition lead by Congress had been demanding for making the offence non-cognizable and also wanted to non-criminalise the offence. A united opposition had made it difficult for the government to pass the bill. Even the Ruling coalition party like Telungudesan Party opposed the bill. Parties like AIADMK, DMK, RJD, CPIM are opposing the Bill.
Earlier Government passed the bill on Loksabha where BJP has a brute majority. But in RajyaSabha opposition parties have the upper hand and it made things difficult for central Government.
The government had been pushing to pass the bill in the Rajya Sabha too in the current winter session, which ends tomorrow.
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The chairman of the Rajya Sabha M Venkaiah Naidu and the leader of the house Arun Jaitley had met for over half an hour yesterday to find an end to the stalemate; the government has to move a resolution to send the bill to a select committee to end the deadlock.
As it tabled the bill on Wednesday, the government made a strong appeal to pass it to ensure the practice of Muslim men divorcing their wives by saying talaq thrice is stopped. It has accused the Congress of hypocrisy for opposing the bill in the Rajya Sabha after not doing so in the Lok Sabha. The BJP wanted a debate in the upper house to “expose the double standards of the Congress,” before an inevitable surrender on account of the opposition’s superior numbers in the Rajya Sabha.
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