Law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad responds to Rahul Gandhi’s letter to PM Narendra Modi, offers ‘new deal’ to help women

Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has written a letter to Congress president Rahul Gandhi over the latter’s demand of the government passing the Women’s Reservation Bill. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader has asked the Gandhi scion to offer a “new deal” to Indian women “to ensure equality and adequate representation”.

“As part of this new deal, we should approve, in both Houses of Parliament, the Women Reservation Bill, the law prohibiting Triple Talaq and imposing penal consequence on those who violate the law, and the law prohibiting Nikah Halala,” said Prasad in the letter.

The Law Minister further pointed that the bill was originally proposed by NDA government led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee. He further said that even when the previous UPA government re-introduced the bill, the BJP stood in support of it and had it passed in the Rajya Sabha.