The Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] move to cobble together a vanguard of broad-based opposition to the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) by soliciting across-the-aisle support from the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) has seemingly spooked the Congress.
The Congress has scrambled to convene a leadership meeting on July 5 to chart a course to bolster the United Democratic Front (UDF) and reinforce its traditional sway over minority communities by aggressively championing the anti-UCC cause.
On Sunday, CPI(M) State secretary M.V. Govindan, to all intents and purposes, set the cat among the pigeons by suggesting that Muslims felt the Congress was ambivalent about the UCC.
