Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma has outlined conditions for migrant Bangladesh-origin Bengali-speaking Muslims, known as 'miya', to be recognised as indigenous people of the state.
Opposition leaders in Assam on Saturday strongly criticised the BJP government over its decision to repeal the Muslim Marriage Act, denouncing it as an "anti-Muslim measure".
Shayara Bano heaved a sigh of relief on Wednesday at the enactment of a law banning polygamy in her small Indian state, the culmination of a years-long effort including her own case before the nation's Supreme Court. "I can now say that my battle against age-old Islamic rules on marriage and divorce has been won," said Bano, a Muslim woman whose husband chose to have two wives and divorced her by uttering "talaq" three times. "Islam's allowance for men to have two or more wives at the same time had to end," she told Reuters.
Among other things, it extends the rule of monogamy to the Muslim community. One of the conditions for solemnising a marriage is that “neither party has a spouse living at the time of the marriage”.
Uttarakhand UCC: While some young women say the concept of polygamy in Muslim Personal Law is misunderstood, others question why the Uniform Civil Code Bill is being viewed only from the Muslim lens as it would affect Adivasis and Hindus too