Malappuram, June 29, 2023 (PPI-OT): Congress ally and an opposition party in Kerala, the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) has said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is pushing for implementing a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the country only as an election agenda ahead of the Lok Sabha polls next year as he has nothing to show for his nine-year rule. After a meeting held here during the day, senior IUML members-which included the party’s state chief Sayyid Sadik Ali Shihab Thangal, its national general secretary P K Kunhalikutty and MP E T Muhammed Basheer-said they have decided to oppose the UCC.
The IUML leaders said that UCC was “not a Muslim issue”, but Modi was trying to project it as one. They said that it was a last-ditch “trump card” being used by Modi with the 2024 General Election in mind as he has nothing to show for the nine-year long rule by his government.
“It is an election-related agenda of the Prime Minister as he has nothing to show for this nine-year long governance. He is trying to make an issue out of a non-issue and trying to fool the people. It will be strongly opposed by the party,” Kunhalikutty told reporters. Basheer said that the IUML has always opposed the UCC and will continue to do so as it cannot be implemented effectively in the Indian scenario.
He said that in a country like India, which is full of diversity, where different religions have their own customs, practices and beliefs, UCC can never be implemented here. Basheer claimed that Modi was raking up this issue now as he was “scared” since “his track record in the last term and this one has not been very good”. “From the demonetisation, the various financial policies of his government and the problems in the health sector, his performance has been zero. So, he is scared.
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