Right time to bring UCC, Opposition should refrain from communal politics: Naqvi

Senior BJP leader and former Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Saturday targeted the Congress and other opposition parties over the Uniform Civil Code issue and asked them to listen to their conscience and refrain from communal politicsThis is the right time to implement this inclusive reform Its now or never for this law he told reporters here and asserted that a Uniform Civil Code UCC will ensure equality and justice for allUCC refers to a common set of laws that are applicable to all the citizens of India and is not based on religion in dealing with marriage divorce inheritance and adoption among other personal mattersThe mood of the nation is to make Uniform Civil Code free from the clutches of communal conspirators who held this hostage for the last seven decades for their narrowminded selfinterests Naqvi allegedSlamming the opposition parties the BJP leader said Listening to conscience is the only befitting reply to communal politics over a progressive law like the Uniform Civil Code which will ensure equality and justice for allThe Opposition parties should listen to their conscience to control the Congress communal confusion and contradiction on UCC he addedNaqvi alleged the Congress mistake of the moment in 1985 became punishment for decades for the country when the party misused its numerical strength in Parliament for communal assault on inclusive reform in the Shah Bano caseUnfortunately instead of rectifying the Congress is repeating its mistakes he chargedEven Congress workers peoples representatives and members of other Opposition parties disagree and are agitated over the partys policy of confusion commotion and cozenage on UCC Naqvi claimedThe debate over a Uniform Civil Code was reignited after Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a strong push for it asking how can the country function with dual laws that govern personal matters and accused the Opposition of using the UCC issue to mislead and provoke the Muslim communityUCC has been one of the three key poll planks of the BJP for a long time with the other being the abrogation of Article 370 which had given special status to Jammu and Kashmir and the construction of the Ram Mandir in AyodhyaA parliamentary standing committee has called representatives of the law commission and the law ministry on July 3 on a recent notice issued by the law panel seeking views of stakeholders on the issue of a uniform civil codeAccording to the schedule of the standing committee on law and personnel it will hear the views of representatives of the law panel and legal affairs and legislative departments of the law ministry on public notice issued by the Law Commission of India on 14th June 2023 inviting views from the various stakeholders on the Uniform Civil Code under the subject Review of Personal LawsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever