The need for a united effort to resist the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) was the highlight of the Muslim Coordination Committee’s seminar held here on Wednesday, in which leaders from ideologically opposite parties such as the CPI(M), CPI, Congress, and the Indian Union Muslim league (IUML) and organisations like the Jamaat-e-Islami shared the dais for a common cause.
The committee is a conglomeration of Muslim organisations in Kerala, chaired by Panakkad Syed Sadik Ali Shihab Thangal, IUML State president.
Opening the event, Tamil Nadu Health Minister and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader Ma. Subramanian said envisioning one country, one people, and one law was nothing but an Illusion. The fundamental right of citizens to practise and profess a religion should not be curtailed. The UCC would seriously threaten personal laws which were rooted in diverse cultures.
