Mayawati helps UCC however slams BJP’s method

Mayawati’s tackle UCC

Bahujan Samaj Get together Nationwide President Mayawati acknowledged that the BSP was not towards the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) however doesn’t agree with the best way the BJP is attempting to implement the UCC in India.

Mayawati acknowledged that the BSP had no objection to the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), however she suspects that the Central Authorities has introduced the UCC to the forefront to masks its failures and divert the general public’s consideration.

Mayawati acknowledged at a press convention in Lucknow that she had recommended the BJP authorities rise above the politics of slender selfishness and non secular bias and give attention to the problems that hang-out India, together with inflation, poverty, unemployment, and an absence of primary facilities, together with schooling and well being.

Additional stating that she is just not towards the implementation of UCC in India however doesn’t agree with how the Central Authorities is attempting to implement it in India.

Citing Article 44 of the Structure of India, Mayawati emphasised that the Central Authorities should be certain that UCC is carried out with out non secular bias and contemplating totally different non secular beliefs and practices to strengthen the nation and never weaken it, selling communal concord and brotherhood among the many individuals of India. Additional stating that if UCC is carried out correctly, then her half stands in help of the Central Authorities.

Additional clarifying that although UCC is talked about within the Structure of India, there is no such thing as a provision for its forceful imposition within the Structure drafted by Babasaheb Ambedkar; consciousness and normal consent have been thought-about finest, and thus the implementation of UCC ought to happen solely as soon as normal consent is obtained from the individuals of India.

Voices of various political events

Numerous political events have voiced their opposition towards the UCC, which goals to exchange private legal guidelines with a typical set of legal guidelines for all residents.

Whereas some events, together with the Aam Aadmi Get together (AAP), have supported the thought of the implementation of UCC in India was in consonance with Mayawati’s stance on UCC, different events have claimed it to be a tactic to polarize the individuals forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

AAP Nationwide Normal Secretary Sandeep Pathak had mentioned that AAP helps the Uniform Civil Code in precept whereas including that Article 44 of the Structure states there ought to be a UCC within the nation. Pathak, nevertheless, emphasised that earlier than the implementation of UCC, the central authorities ought to undertake session with all non secular leaders, political events, and organizations, to achieve a typical consensus constructed on which UCC may be carried out.

 Congress’s tackle UCC

On Saturday, Congress’s Parliamentary Technique Group held a gathering, the place it was determined that the Congress would await the Central Authorities to take the subsequent step and are available out with a draft invoice and chorus from “speeding in ” with its opposition to the settlement on the implementation of UCC with none Invoice. It was determined within the assembly that the Congress get together wouldn’t oppose much-needed reforms in private legal guidelines akin to “equality of inheritance”. Nevertheless, it’ll proceed to carry the view that the UCC may very well be an assault on variety if not carried out in the fitting method.

VD Satheeshan, the Congress chief and Chief of Opposition Kerala Meeting, acknowledged that The Regulation Fee that was appointed by the Central authorities itself had made it clear that there is no such thing as a want for implementation of UCC in India at this second, and thus they have been additionally taking the identical stand that there is no such thing as a want for UCC at this level of time, additional stating that the Central Authorities is bringing this as much as polarise the individuals.