PTI, SATNA: BJP chief Amit Shah on Monday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ensured that triple talaq has no place in the country despite facing opposition from the Congress which "never cared" for the honour of Muslim women.

Shah was addressing an event, where a sizeable number of Muslim women were in attendance, ahead of the November 28 Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh.

"The Congress never cared for the honour of Muslim mothers and sisters. It has no courage to deal with issues like triple talaq. Despite stiff opposition from the Congress, (Prime Minister) Modi has ensured that it (triple talaq) has no place in the country," Shah said.

The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Ordinance was  promulgated on September 19 under which instant triple talaq has been declared illegal and punishable with a jail term of three years for the husband. 

Shah said the BJP has encouraged women not just by words but by giving them important responsibilities, including as defence and external affairs ministers ministers, governors and chief ministers.  

He said that the BJP had created a "record" in honouring women while the Congress had done nothing for them despite being in power for a long time.

"Not just by words, but Modi government has given them (women) space in the Union Cabinet by inducting nine women ministers including Nirmala Sitharaman as defence minister and Sushma Swaraj as external affairs minister," Shah said at the"kamal shakti samvad" function. 

Swaraj has been given prime responsibility of establishing good relations with countries and enhancing trade with them, Shah said.

He added that during the BJP rule, six women were appointed as governors of states, including that of Madhya Pradesh who earlier was Gujarat's first woman chief minister.

He hit out at the opposition party for "disrespecting" senior BJP leader, late Vijaya Raje Scindia, affectionately known as Rajmata, claiming that she had been "oppressed" and jailed.

He added that Scindia never gave up despite the Congress troubling her for long, and this had led to the "lotus (BJP symbol) blooming in the entire region".

Eulogising Scindia, the BJP chief said that the 'Rajmata' was like a mother to all party workers whom she constantly encouraged.

Her life is a lesson and an inspiration, Shah told the gathering.

Scindia was born on October 11, 1919 at Sagar in Madhya Pradesh and passed away on 25 January, 2001.

She was a Member of Parliament for many years between 1957 and 1998.  Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani Monday termed the attacks against Hindi-speaking non-Gujaratis in the western state a "planned conspiracy" of the Congress and asserted that his government was extending full security to all.

"It was a planned conspiracy of (a) Congress MLA... Elections are slated in four states and the 'Statue of Unity' is all set to be unveiled... therefore, the Congress tried to create problems, but the Gujarat government foiled all such efforts and there is complete peace in the state now," Rupani said at a joint press conference with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath here.

Gujarat Congress MLA Alpesh Thakor is facing heat over the alleged incitement of violence by him against north Indians living in the state.

Rupani reached here Sunday to invite Adityanath to attend the unveiling function of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel's 'Statue of Unity' at Narmada bank in Gujarat on October 31.

Adityanath thanked Rupani and said he has accepted the invitation of his Gujarat counterpart.

Rupani said the Gujarat government took strict measures and normalcy has returned in the state, after it was hit by a spate of attacks on Hindi-speaking migrants, mostly from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

"More than 700 people have been arrested of which more than 50 are Congressmen... Over 100 were spreading instigating messages on social media and many of them were from the Congress party," he said.

He claimed that no untoward incident has taken place in the state for the past several days.

The state government has provided security to all, he said.

The Gujarat CM said that legal action will be taken against the Congress MLA for inflammatory speech.

In an oblique reference to Shaktisinh Gohil, Rupani said incidentally a Congress leader, who is the in-charge for party affairs in Bihar, is talking about "throwing Biharis out".

He also asked Congress president Rahul Gandhi to take action against the leader.

Gohil, a former leader of the opposition in the Gujarat Assembly, is the AICC in-charge for Bihar.

Congress workers Sunday tried to show black flags to Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on his visit to the Uttar Pradesh capital.

To a question on his blaming Congress for the problems in Gujarat while the party workers were staging protests during his visit here, Rupani said it was a case of "thief calling for action against the police."