TDP national president and former Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has said his party will stand by the Muslims with regard to the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), which is likely to be tabled as a Bill in the monsoon session of Parliament beginning July 20. “The TDP will never work against the sentiments of the … Read more
Muslim opinion is quietly consolidating against the proposed Uniform Civil Code. After other Muslim organisations spoke out against Uniform Civil Code, the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, which had initially preferred to wait to see the draft of the proposed code, has written to the Law Commission, questioning the timing of the commission’s public notice, issued on June … Read more
Minister for Public Works and Tourism P. A. Mohamed Riyas has said that some Congress leaders were sleeping agents of the BJP, and that they made deliberate attempts to sabotage the national seminar against the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) held in Kozhikode on Saturday. He was speaking to reporters in Kozhikode on Sunday. He accused … Read more
On July 3, officials from the Law Ministry, informed a parliamentary standing committee headed by BJP MP Sushil Modi that they are awaiting the 22nd Law Commission report to proceed with their process on uniform civil code. Law Commission Member-Secretary Khetrabasi Biswal said on since June 14, the commission published a public notice inviting feedback … Read more
BJP MP Sushil Kumar Modi. File. | Photo Credit: PTI Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram (VKS) a tribal body affiliated with Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), on July 9 said that it welcomes the ‘role’ of BJP MP Sushil Kumar Modi, Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law, to keep the tribes out of Uniform Civil Code (UCC). … Read more
Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen during an interaction with students of Visva-Bharati University at his ancestral home ‘Pratichi’, at Santiniketan in Birbhum district on July 5, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen on Wednesday said that attempts to implement a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) were a ‘bluff’. He posed a question, asking who … Read more
A day after PM Modi made a strong pitch for a Uniform Civil Code, Congress leader P. Chidambaram said it cannot be forced on people by an “agenda-driven majoritarian government” | file photo | Photo Credit: ANI A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a strong pitch for a Uniform Civil Code (UCC), Congress … Read more
Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani. File Hyderabad-based Islamic scholar Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani succeeded the late Maulana Syed Rabey Nadw as president of the influential All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB). In an interview with The Hindu, he speaks about the challenges ahead for the AIMPLB, including the continuance of the Places of Worship Act, … Read more
AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi has denied that his party’s role in the next month’s Gujarat Assembly elections would be to eat into the Congress’s vote share and blamed the grand old party for the BJP’s long run in power in the … Read more
Ahead of assembly elections, Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has promised a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) for the state if the BJP is voted back to power, putting the issue once again under the spotlight for the ruling party at the Centre. The statement comes amid the raging Hijab row in Karnataka, which has … Read more