Lucknow: Reacting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks on "communal civil code" during his address on Independence Day, Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday said that the need for the hour is that all the castes get their rights and dignity.
Many important issues
"The biggest issues for the nation are that the inflation should decrease, youth should get employment and the dreams of Samajwadi people should be fulfilled. All the people should participate and our society become prosperous. All the castes get their rights and dignity. This is the need of the hour," the SP leader said.
Reaction by Congress
Earlier, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said that the comments were an insult to Dr BR Ambedkar, who was the greatest champion of reforms in Hindu personal law.
Jairam Ramesh also said the Law Commission appointed by the BJP-led NDA government had said in 2018 that the Uniform Civil Code "is neither necessary nor desirable at this stage".
"The non-biological PM's capacity for malice, mischief, and maligning of history knows no bounds. It was on full display today from the Red Fort. To say that we have had a "communal civil code" till now is a gross insult to Dr Ambedkar, who was the greatest champion of reforms in Hindu personal laws that became a reality by the mid-1950s. These reforms had been bitterly opposed by the RSS and the Jan Sangh," Jairam Ramesh said in a post on X.
Law Commission
And here is what the 21st Law Commission, appointed by the non-biological PM himself, had said in Para 1.15 of its 182-page Consultation Paper on Reform of Family Law, dated August 31st, 2018: While diversity of Indian culture can and should be celebrated, specific groups or weaker sections of society must not be dis-privileged in the process.
Resolution of this conflict does not mean abolition of all differences. This Commission has therefore dealt with laws that are discriminatory rather than providing a uniform civil code which is neither necessary nor desirable at this stage. (with Agency inputs)
