Former Congress leader Acharya Pramod Krishnam on Monday claimed that Congress MP Rahul Gandhi had once said that if the Congress government is formed at the Centre, “we will form a superpower committee and reverse the Ram Mandir verdict”. Krishnam was expelled by the Congress in February 2024 for “indiscipline”.
“I served in the Congress for more than 32 years and when the Ram Mandir decision came, Rahul Gandhi in a meeting with his close aides said that after the Congress government was formed, they would form a superpower committee and the Ram Mandir would reverse the decision. Krishnam told news agency ANI.
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Krishnam further claimed that Rahul Gandhi “had then also said that he would quash the decision of Ram Mandir, just like Rajiv Gandhi quashed the decision of Shah Bano…”
Earlier this month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had attacked the Congress while referring to the Rajiv Gandhi government's decision to overturn the Supreme Court's verdict in the 1985 Shah Bano case.
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The 1984 Shah Bano case
In April 1978, Shah Bano had filed a petition in an Indore court, demanding maintenance from her divorced husband Mohammed Ahmad Khan, a well-known lawyer.
Shah Bano had approached the court not under the Islamic personal law but under Article 123 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 – which stipulated that a man must take care of his wife during marriage and after divorce if she cannot provide for her livelihood. financially itself.
In 1985, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Shah Bano. However, the then Congress government led by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had quashed the verdict by law.
According to a report in the Frontline magazinethe Supreme Court of India upheld the decision of the Supreme Court which ordered the payment of maintenance to Shah Bano in April 1985. The verdict had unleashed a political battle.
Then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was reportedly “caught between the protesting Muslim clerics, who were backed by the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, and the Hindu right wing that had jumped on the verdict and pushed for a uniform civil code.”
Rajiv Gandhi's government had passed the Muslim Women (Protection on Divorce) Act, 1986, overturning the Supreme Court verdict.
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Published: May 6, 2024 3:51 PM IST