How Can Country Run On 2 Laws?” PM’s Strong Pitch For Uniform Civil Code

New Delhi: 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a strong pitch for a Uniform Civil Code today, said the country couldn’t run on two laws, much like it didn’t work to have “different set of rules for different members of a family”.

PM Modi’s comments come on the back of the Law Commission seeking views from various stakeholders on a uniform civil code, and reports that the government could bring in a bill in the next session of parliament.

Addressing a gathering of BJP workers under the party’s “Mera Booth Sabse Majboot” campaign in Madhya Pradesh, where elections are due by December, PM Modi said those who opposed a common law for the country were inciting people for their own interests.

Indian Muslims will have to understand which political parties are provoking and destroying them for their own benefit,” he said, pointing out that the Constitution also talks about equal rights for all citizens. The Supreme Court has also asked for a Uniform Civil Code, he added.

PM Modi questioned the banned ‘triple talaq’ and questioned why, if it was inalienable from Islam, it wasn’t practised in Muslim-majority countries like Egypt, Indonesia, Qatar, Jordan, Syria, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. In Egypt, where Sunni Muslims make up 90 per cent of the population, triple talaq was abolished 80 to 90 years ago, he pointed out.

“Those who advocate for triple talaq, they are hungry for a vote bank, they are doing grave injustice to Muslim daughters,” the PM said.

He said triple talaq didn’t just concern women but destroyed entire families. When a woman, after a wedding full of hopes, is sent back after triple talaq, it is her parents and brothers who feel her pain.