New Delhi, July 31 -- The passage of the bill in Parliament outlawing the practice of instant Triple Talaq has broader implications than its impact on divorce proceedings within the Muslim community of India. What it also signals is that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has more or less overcome its numerical shortcoming in the Rajya Sabha, where most of its big policy proposals got blocked during the Narendra Modi government's first term. On Tuesday, the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2019 was passed by the upper house by 99 votes to 84. Parties such as the Trinamool Congress, Samajwadi Party, Rashtriya Janata Dal, Bahujan Samaj Party, Nationalist Congress Party and Telugu Desam Party-which had all along been siding with the Congress in opposing some aspects of the bill-acted in ways that ultimately enabled its passage. Some walked out, some voted in its favour, while others stayed away from the House. All this reduced not just the Opposition strength, but also the number of votes needed for a winning majority to enable the bill's enactment as a law....