The Janata Dal (United) on Thursday advocated attempts to build a consensus on the issue of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) and said all stakeholders, a reference to members of different religions and communities, must be taken into confidence.

Party spokesperson K C Tyagi cited Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's 2017 letter to the then Law Commission Chairperson B S Chauhan in which Kumar had said the UCC must be seen as a measure of reform for people's welfare and not a "political instrumentality" to be hurriedly imposed against their wishes and without consultations.