Shayara Bano was granted Minister of State status by the government of Uttarakhand.
Dehradun:
Anti-triple talaq crusader Shayara Bano, who recently joined the BJP, was granted Minister of State status by the government of Uttarakhand.
The move comes just ten days after Bano, who was the first Muslim woman to question the constitutionality of the triple talaq practice in the Supreme Court, joined the BJP in the presence of its state unit chairman Bansidhar Bhagat and a host of other leaders.
Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat’s media coordinator Darshan Singh Rawat said Ms. Bano was among three women, who were appointed vice-chairmen of the National Women’s Commission, in addition to receiving the status from MoS Tuesday.
The other two women appointed to the post are Jyoti Shah from Ranikhet in Almora district and Pushpa Paswan from Chamoli district.
The three positions on the commission had been vacant for a long time.
It is the chief minister’s gift to the women of the state during Navratri, he said.
Ms Bano was the first to challenge the constitutionality of the practice of triple talaq in the Supreme Court in 2014, four months after being divorced by her husband via the speed post.
She resides in the Udham Singh Nagar district of Uttarakhand.
