Hyderabad parliamentarian Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday said that he submitted the party’s response to the Law Commission on the Uniform Civil Code (UCC). He described the exercise as the Bharatiya Janata Party’s attempt to reap political dividends.
Mr. Owaisi was interacting with the media at party headquarters in Darussalaam where he said that also included in the response was a legal opinion of Justice V. Gopala Gowda on the subject.
The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen president accused the BJP of seeking to vitiate the communal atmosphere of the country. Mr Owaisi said that the present Law Commission’s seeking of reponses on the UCC comes as no surprise. “Like clockwork BJP raises the UCC. The goal is to vitiate the atmosphere and reap political dividends,” Mr Owaisi said, adding that the 22nd Law Commission did not give any proposal, but merely cited the 21st Law Commission’s work.
