Vijayan slams UCC: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday (June 30) alleged that the BJP is raking up Uniform Civil Code (UCC) problem as a part of its ‘electoral’ plan and accused the Centre of trying to implement the agenda of ‘one nation, one culture’ by diminishing the nation’s cultural range.

Vijayan urged the Centre to withdraw from making the transfer to impose the UCC.

In an announcement, the Chief Minister, who can be a senior chief of the CPI(M), stated the Centre’s transfer can solely be seen as a plan to implement the “majority communal agenda of ‘one nation, one culture’ by wiping out the cultural diversity of the country”.

“The Central Government and the Law Commission should withdraw from the move to impose the Uniform Civil Code,” he stated.

The Kerala CM stated that efforts needs to be made to reform and amend discriminatory practices inside private legal guidelines, reasonably than imposing a UCC.

“Triggering debates around Uniform Civil Code is an electoral ploy by Sangh Parivar to press their majoritarian agenda for deepening communal divide. Let’s oppose any attempts to undermine India’s pluralism and support reforms through democratic discussions within communities,” he tweeted.

‘Need to reform private legal guidelines’

The Chief Minister, in his assertion, stated that the strikes have arisen in any faith relating to the reforms from inside them and it can’t be resolved by an government resolution.

Citing the earlier Law Commission in 2018, Vijayan stated that it had opined {that a} UCC was ‘neither necessary nor desirable’ at this stage, and added that the proponents of the brand new transfer ought to first clarify how the state of affairs to deviate from that place immediately arose.

He stated that the distinctiveness of the nation is that it embraces range and variations and doesn’t efface plurality to herald uniformity.

“What is needed is to reform personal laws in tune with the times, and not unify them based on a specific agenda,” he added.

The Chief Minister’s remarks got here days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a pitch for the implementation of a Uniform Civil Code within the nation and stated that Muslims are being instigated over the problem.

Addressing a gathering of get together employees in Bhopal on June 27, the Prime Minister stated even the Supreme Court has advocated for a Uniform Civil Code, however these practising vote financial institution politics are opposing it.

He additionally requested how the nation can have two programs, touching upon a difficulty carefully recognized with the BJP with lower than a yr left for the Lok Sabha polls.

Political debate over UCC

Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah on Thursday stated that the Central authorities ought to “rethink” its resolution on the implementation of UCC in India or it else the transfer might elevate a “storm”. 

Speaking to reporters, Abdullah stated, “They (Central govt) should think that the country is diverse, people of all religions live here, and Muslims have their own Shariat law. They should think about it repeatedly. They should think about any possible storm that would come if they do that (implement UCC).” 

Earlier, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Okay Stalin stated the prime minister was “looking to escalate religious conflicts and confuse people to win (elections).” “I am sure, people will teach a lesson to the BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections,” Stalin was quoted as saying by information company ANI.

Implementation of UCC

Implementation of the UCC has now change into BJP’s high precedence – with eyes on the 2024 polls. Going heading in the right direction BJP-run states like Goa have already carried out it, whereas in Uttarakhand a promise was made on this regard forward of its 2022 Assembly polls — it was additionally in his ballot manifesto.

The Pushkar Singh Dhami-led Uttarakhand authorities has fashioned a five-member committee headed by a retired Supreme Court choose to put together a draft on UCC for the state. 

For UCC, the Centre has been banking upon Supreme Court, which has repeatedly given a inexperienced sign in a number of instances so as to present equal justice to residents. This was mirrored when the SC decided on abolishing Tripple Talaq.

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