Hundreds of women from across the country who took part in the 7 annual convention of Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) held in the city recently.
Source/Credit: The Hindu | India
By Staff Reporter | December 7, 2014
‘We do not want a unified civil code. We want to follow the Muslim Personal Law with modifications that can help in the upliftment of women’
Life has not been a bed of roses for 27-year-old I. Ravithammal ever since her husband left her seven years ago, simply by writing talaq thrice, on a piece of paper.
Though she is struggling to meet her daily needs and educate her children, she helps other women like herself to gain employment.
Ravithammal is among the hundreds of women from across the country who took part in the 7 annual convention of Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) held in the city recently.
The main aim of the convention is to create awareness of a draft law prepared by BMMA that calls for a ban on oral talaq and polygyny. It also seeks raising the minimum age limit for marriage to 18 for Muslim girls and 21 for boys.
Ravithammal, who hails from Dindigul, says she is a victim of triple talaq and wants the government to abolish the system.
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