New Delhi: The Nationalist Congress Celebration (NCP) Wednesday dubbed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s push for a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) as a “political stunt” pushed by “electoral calculations”.
The NCP’s place on the difficulty, which has taken centrestage in political discourse following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks made in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh Tuesday, was spelt out by the occasion’s working president and Rajya Sabha MP Praful Patel after a gathering of its frontal organisations right here.
“The hurry with which the BJP has began exhibiting curiosity within the UCC means that it’s a politician stunt aimed on the elections. Why else did they do nothing on this entrance over the past 9 years? Ours is a really various nation the place many religions, communities have their very own set of legal guidelines and customs. This isn’t about one neighborhood. The federal government ought to have held wider consultations on this challenge,” Patel advised reporters.
Addressing a press briefing after the assembly, which was attended by NCP chief Sharad Pawar and the occasion’s different working president Supriya Sule, Patel additionally parried questions on Ajit Pawar, who final week demanded extra accountability within the occasion organisation. Ajit, who’s presently serving as Chief of Opposition within the Maharashtra meeting, was not current on the assembly.
“This was a gathering of frontal organisations and the occasion’s nationwide office-bearers. So far as those that have expressed sure pursuits, elections shall be held to the posts of office-bearers and the occasion will take all such points into consideration,” Patel mentioned.
On the difficulty of UCC, nevertheless, Patel clarified that for the time being the NCP was neither supporting or opposing the proposal on its implementation. “Our level is, what explains this rush? They’ve even put aside the opinion, made in a session paper in 2018, of the twenty first Legislation Fee {that a} UCC was ‘neither mandatory nor fascinating at this stage’.”
Earlier this month, the twenty second Legislation Fee invited ideas on the UCC, sparking a contemporary debate on the topic. By making a powerful case for it Tuesday, Modi made it clear that UCC was going to determine majorly on the BJP’s agenda within the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Going by the reactions up to now, it’s evident that the Opposition, together with the Congress, is treading cautiously on the difficulty, refraining from getting right into a debate on attainable deserves or pitfalls of a UCC. The AAP, in the meantime, appeared to talk in two voices on the topic Wednesday.
Whereas its nationwide basic secretary (organisation) Sandeep Pathak advised reporters that AAP “helps UCC in precept” however “large-scale consultations have to be held”, talking individually, the occasion’s Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh advised the media that “the BJP was all for doing politics on the difficulty”.
“If we’re to help UCC, based mostly on which doc ought to we body our place?” Singh mentioned, in an obvious reference to the truth that no draft laws on UCC has been made public up to now.
In the meantime, the All India Muslim Private Legislation Board (AIMPLB) determined late Tuesday that it might oppose “tooth and nail” any transfer to implement the UCC within the nation.
(Edited by Gitanjali Das)
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