New Delhi, Aug. 23 (PTI): Senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram today said even though the instantaneous divorce had gone, two other types of talaq continued to exist and these were a challenge to gender justice and gender equality.

"Greater clarity today. Only instant triple talaq is illegal. Other two kinds are also a challenge to gender justice and gender equality," he said in a tweet.

The former Union home minister said triple talaq was a distortion of original Quranic legal principles and it was good that it had been declared unconstitutional by the apex court.

"Majority judgment is a resounding affirmation of gender justice and of equality of spouses," he said in another tweet.

In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court yesterday struck down the talaq-ul-biddat (triple talaq or instantaneous divorce) among Muslims.

However, the court did not touch on the two other method of divorce - talaq-e-ahsan (single pronouncement followed by abstinence) and talaq-e-hasan (three pronouncements; one each in three successive months).