Modi a reformer, ended the trend of appeasement: Amit Shah

NEW DELHI: Home minister and BJP president Amit Shah on Sunday accused Congress of inflicting “politics of appeasement” on the country with an eye on vote-bank, which resulted in Partition in 1947 and led to continuance of the “evil practice” of triple talaq.
Speaking on ‘Abolition of Triple Talaq: Correcting a Historical Wrong’, organised by the Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation, Shah said triple talaq could be criminalised due to the will power of PM Modi as he equated him with other leading social reformers of the country, whose contributions shaped an egalitarian and democratic society.Shah defended the law criminalising triple talaq, asserting that it establishes gender equality.
“In the 60s Indian democracy was infected with three cancers — dynastic succession, casteism and appeasement — which has been pursued by Congress till date. However, as a member of BJP, I can say proudly that our leader PM Modi has turned a reformer by putting an end to the trends of dynasty, casteism and appeasement,” he said. Shah assured Muslim women that their constitutional rights will be protected by the current dispensation.
“There has not been shortage of social reformers, who were born in different ages. Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Mahatama Gandhi, Jyotiba Phule, Dr Ambedkar and Vir Savarkar, who had launched social reform movements against untouchability, child marriage and for widow remarriage. Today Narendra Modi’s name has also been included in the list of these great reformers after ban on triple talaq, which was infringing on the right of equality to Muslim women,” the BJP chief said.
Citing findings of Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan which said over 92% of Muslim women wanted to get rid of the triple talaq, Shah said, “When Modi became Prime Minister again, he immediately worked on the promise he had made to Muslim women in 2018 and triple talaq was banned in one go.”
Shah said election of Modi as PM in 2014 was the beginning of the end of politics of appeasement and the 2019 mandate is to end it forever.