INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday made a strong pitch for enactment of Uniform Civil Code (UCC) and said the country could
not have different laws for different categories of citizens, strengthening the indication that the government may be considering bringing a
bill in Parliament dealing with issues of marriage, divorce, adoption and inheritance that would apply to all communities.Modi also talked
member and another law for another member? Will that home be able to function? Then how will the country function with a dual system..
first public advocacy for UCC after taking over as prime minister in 2014.The loud public articulation of UCC, which has been opposed by
Law Commission recently re-energised the issue of UCC, part of the the Directive Principles and endorsed by the Supreme Court multiple
times, by seeking comments from the public
week of July and if the government indeed brings the UCC legislation, it will ensure that the sittings, the first in the newly-inaugurated
therefore, cannot be dispensed with.He said the objection was a ploy by those who treated Muslims as a vote bank, and recalled that
abolition of triple talaq or instant oral divorce was also opposed on the same ground despite the fact that Muslim countries, including
Would these Muslim-majority countries have done so if triple talaq was indeed integral to Islam? I was recently in Egypt where Sunni Muslims
account for 90% of the population
countries which have proscribed triple talaq.He said triple talaq continued to flourish in India because of vote bank politics even though
the practice had adverse repercussions for not just women but for the Muslim community as a whole
sincerely in their interest.Modi singled out the Muslim elite for neglecting the socially backward among Muslims, the Pasmandas
brothers and sisters miserable
They have been denied equality and are seen as untouchable
around Triple Talaq issue
