Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has barred men with two wives from applying for the post of Urdu teachers in schools, a move that has raised the hackles of Muslim Personal Law Board, which said it violated Islamic law.
The government order says candidates applying for the post must reveal their marital status and all those with two living wives would not be eligible. Women candidates married to a man with two surviving have also been barred from applying. The notice for appointment of 3,500 Urdu teachers in primary schools was issued recently. “Government cannot impose such conditions when it comes to recruitment of staff. There is a provision for four marriages in Islam, even though just about one per cent of Muslim men have two wives. Even so, such conditions should not become part of the job application process,” Imam of Lucknow’s Eidgah and member of the Muslim Personal Law Board Maulana Khalid Rasheed Firangi Mahali said.
