The BJP Minority Morcha’s Uttar Pradesh unit president Kunwar Basit Ali on Monday claimed the All India Muslim Personal Law Board was opposing a Uniform Civil Code without understanding it. He asserted that the purpose of a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) is not to interfere in anyone’s religious freedom or method of worship but to strengthen democracy. The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AILMPLB) had a few days ago sent its objections on Uniform Civil Code (UCC) to the Law Commission and demanded that not just tribals but every religious minority should be kept out of the purview of such a statute. It contended that in a multicultural and religiously diverse country like India, the very idea of a UCC is anti-constitutional, so the board is opposing it without waiting for any draft of it. Hitting out at the AIMPLB, Ali said, “The form of the UCC has not yet been decided but the AIMPLB has already started protesting against it and at every level.”
It can be inferred that women of every religion will be empowered by the formation of a Uniform Civil Code, he said.
