AIMPLB Opposes Uniform Civil Code, Sends Draft To Law Commission With Objections

New Delhi: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board on Wednesday handed over a draft of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) to the Law Commission, itemizing its objections to the proposed laws and highlighting the rights that enshrined for the group within the Constitution. The working committee of the Board had accredited the draft response on the UCC, and, on Wednesday, it was offered for dialogue at a digital normal assembly of the Board that started at 10 am. Earlier, the Secretary of the Law Commission of India had requested AIMPLB to submit a correct response, after soliciting views and concepts from the general public, relating to the UCC. 

Responding to the identical, the secretary normal of AIMPLB stated the difficulty was examined earlier and the fee’s predecessor reached a conclusion that the UCC was “neither necessary nor desirable”.

The panel additionally sought six months’ time to organize an acceptable response by non secular organisations, people, and public-spirited individuals. Previously, the AIMPLB had handed a decision at its government assembly saying that the implementation of a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) was not potential as it might be an ‘pointless’ Act.

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It added that the Places of Worship Act 1991, ought to be “maintained and well-implemented” and spiritual conversion was a matter of “Freedom of religion”.

Earlier, a gathering of the Parliament’s Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice, convened on Monday, sought the views of the Department of Legal Affairs, the Legislative Department, and the Law Commission of India on the June 14 discover issued by the Law Commission, inviting views of stakeholders on the Uniform Civil Code.

Opposition MPs stated on the assembly it was essential to remember the fact that the UCC is not only about one household legislation, however concerning the issues associated to each faith, caste, and group of the society, which is why all sections of the society have to be stored in thoughts.

The Uniform Civil Code (UCC), which had been a sizzling subject that had polarised opinions over the past 4 years, hit the forefront but once more after Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a robust case for the implementation of uniform laws at a current deal with.

PM Modi stated the nation can not run on two legal guidelines and that Uniform Civil Code (UCC) was consistent with the founding ideas and beliefs of the Constitution.

“Today people are being instigated in the name of UCC. How can the country run on two (laws)? The Constitution also talks of equal rights…Supreme Court has also asked to implement the UCC. These (Opposition) people are playing vote bank politics,” PM Modi stated whereas addressing booth-level employees in Bhopal.