Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] State secretary M.V. Govindan called for a coming together of secular democratic forces, transcending electoral alliances and pressures of political expediency, to counter the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) bid to impose a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) arbitrarily.
He said the Left Democratic Front (LDF) would spearhead the move to resist the “existential threat to India’s secular national identity, given Congress’s ambivalence about the UCC.”
