Hyderabad, July 14, 2023 (PPI-OT): All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief, Asaduddin Owaisi, has said that BJP is trying to vitiate the communal atmosphere in India by raking up the issue of Uniform Civil Code (UCC). Asaduddin Owaisi, who is Member of Indian Parliament Hyderabad, addressing a press conference in Hyderabad said, by raising the issue of UCC, the BJP is attempting to divert attention from the poverty, unemployment and Chinese transgressions. He termed UCC a political exercise to create an unnecessary environment to divert attention from the real issues. “Like clockwork, BJP raises the UCC. The goal is to vitiate the atmosphere and reap political dividends,” he said.

Owaisi said the present Law Commission seeking responses on the UCC comes as no surprise. He pointed out that the 22nd Law Commission did not give any proposal, but merely cited the 21st Law Commission’s work. “This is not a coincidence that exactly after five years again the Law Commission is undertaking this exercise. Like a clockwork, five or six months before the general elections BJP raises this issue,” he said.

The aim is to vitiate the atmosphere and polarise the electorate so that they reap political gains in the coming 2024 elections, the MP added. Owaisi said AIMIM has sent its response to the Law Commission along with ex-Supreme Court judge Gopala Gowda’s legal opinion on the UCC. He observed that the UCC would obliterate diverse customs. He said the tribals in different parts of the country were already opposing the UCC.

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