Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for “one nation, one law” earlier this week, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPB) held an emergency meeting Tuesday night to oppose the government’s plan to usher in the Uniform Civil Code (UCC).
The AIMPLB has decided to stitch together a coalition of different minorities, including Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Jains to press for retention of each community’s personal laws. The members are likely to submit a resolution to the Law Commission in the first week of July.
“It is wrong of the Prime Minister to allege that two laws cannot operate simultaneously in the country. He would know that even the Indian Penal Code is not uniformly applied in every State,” claimed S.Q.R. Ilyas, spokesperson, AIMPLB.
