New Delhi:
Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal told NDTV on the 100-day anniversary of the third consecutive government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the Uniform Civil Code will come and the BJP will talk to NDA allies to It can be done. Mr. Meghwal said the uniform code of conduct was one of the first three promises of the BJP that it inherited from its predecessor, the Jan Sangh.
“We have fulfilled two other promises – the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya and the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir… The Law Commission is working on it (same Civil Code), but some states have already implemented it… Uttarakhand, Goa other states are thinking about it,” Mr. Meghwal told NDTV in an exclusive interview.
He further said that the Prime Minister has announced this from the wall of Red Fort in his speech on the occasion of Independence Day. We will talk to the allies and definitely take steps in their direction.”
The Uniform Civil Code, which would abolish the personal laws of different communities on important issues like marriage, divorce, inheritance, and adoption and bring all citizens on an equal footing, has been heavily criticized by the opposition in its current form. has gone
A few NDA allies — among them Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his Andhra Pradesh counterpart Chandrababu Naidu — are also on the same page as the opposition. Both parties have called for wider discussion and consensus on the law before finalizing it.
The draft bill is now before the Parliamentary Standing Committee.
In his Independence Day address, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called the current criminal law “sectarian” and said it should be replaced with a secular version.
PM Modi said that many people in the country — and it is true — believe that the civil code we currently follow is actually communal. “It is important that we establish a secular civil code in the country…only then can we end discrimination on the basis of religion,” he added.
The Supreme Court has also demanded the implementation of Uniform Civil Code in several of its decisions.