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Cong Evades Query On Uniform Civil Code; Questions Centre’s Timing

Congress avoids the question whether it was for UCC’s implementation or not

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After the debate over the issue of Uniform Civil Code got intense, the Law Commission, on 7 October, had released a questionnaire on the same, which any individual could fill and send within 45 days.

The commission also urged both the state and national level parties’ heads to share their views on the sensitive topic.

All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) had decided to boycott this move and now the main opposition Congress has dodged a query on UCC, according to a Times of India report.

The Congress submitted the questionnaire without answering whether “the existing personal laws and customary practices need codification.”

According to sources who told TOI, the government’s decision to “selectively pick uniform civil code out of so many directive principles” in the Constitution and the “timing” pointed to the Centre’s “ulterior agenda”.

It also accused the government of trying to create “divisiveness” between different religious and cultural groups.

A Congress panel of Ahmed Patel, political secretary to party chief Sonia Gandhi; Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad; senior lawyer Abhishek Singhvi and former law ministers Veerappa Moily and Salman Khurshid, called for avoiding the question on UCC.

(With inputs from The Times of India)

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