The Congress on Friday attacked the BJP on the Uniform Civil Code issue, alleging that it seeks to divide people and spread hatred, days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a strong pitch for bringing the common code.
The Congress Parliamentary Strategy Group will hold a meeting today to discuss the party's stand on the much discussed Uniform Civil Code (UCC) ahead of the Parliamentary Standing Committee meet on the issue on July 3. The meeting will be held at former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi’s residence in New Delhi.
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice led by BJP Rajya Sabha MP will hold a meeting on July 3 to seek the views of 31 MPs and other members of the committee on UCC.
The Congress on Friday attacked the BJP on the Uniform Civil Code issue, alleging that it seeks to divide people and spread hatred, days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a strong pitch for bringing the common code.
This is not a UCC, but a "DCC - Dividing Civil Code" that seeks to divide the country's politics, Congress spokesperson Meem Afzal said and added that the "UCC is not the agenda, rather the agenda is to divide the people of the country".
"The issue is to divide politics and people and spread hatred among them. Even the prime minister is naming a particular section of people, whereas this issue is not of one section. This is an issue of every section, every religion and every language. If you are doing some work, it should be acceptable to all," he further said.
Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari also said according to his understanding of the law, "review of personal laws means review of existing personal laws" and "the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) is not law as yet".
"To put UCC under the same rubric of existing laws may be or is a bit of a stretch," he said.