Six-time Cuttack MP Bhartruhari Mahtab joins BJP
Along with Mahtab, former BJD MP and artist Sidhant Mohapatra and Padma Shri awardee Dr Damyanti Beshra joined the BJP at the party’s headquarters here.
One of the five petitioners in the triple talaq case, Ishrat Jahan, has joined the BJP, the party’s general secretary of the West Bengal unit Sayantan Basu said on Monday.
Ishrat’s husband had divorced her by uttering talaq thrice through phone from Dubai in 2014.
“Ishrat Jahan joined the BJP at our Howrah office on Sunday,” Basu told PTI. Ishrat was felicitated in the presence of BJP workers in Howrah and inducted into the party. A state level function to felicitate her will be organised soon, it is learnt.
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Ishrat stays at a house in Howrah’s Pilkhna locality. As per reports, over the years, since she filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the instant talaq, she was treated badly by her in-laws’ family and neighbours.
The controversial practice was struck down by the Supreme Court on 22 August 2017.
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