Asaduddin asks BRS to clarify on alliance with BJP

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday asked the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) to clarify whether it will forge an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Reffering to media reports, Owaisi asked whether the BRS will be merged with the BJP. “In 2009-10, the AIMIM wrote to the Pranab Mukharjee Committee stating, there was injustice meted out to the Telangana region, it is underdeveloped. The party further said that if Telangana is created, the BJP will gain strength here. Now that the State has been formed here are news reports on the alliance between BRS and the BJP. Former BRS MP Vinod Kumar has said that everything is on the table and anything can happen. I don’t know which party will benefit from the alliance however the prediction made in 2009 seems to be coming true.”
The AIMIM president further said that the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) will explore legal avenues regarding the Supreme Court judgement on maintenance to divorced Muslim women. He was referring to a recent Supreme Court judgement according to which  a Muslim woman, divorced through “triple talaq,” can seek maintenance from her husband under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CRPC). The court stated that this “religion-neutral” provision applies to all married women, regardless of their personal law.
A Bench consisting of Justices BV Nagarathna and AG Masih had firmly rejected the argument that Section 125 of the CRPC is inapplicable due to the existence of personal law for Muslims, asserting that the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986, does not override the secular provisions of the law.