The Sharia Committee for Women (SCW) — a women-led Muslim group based in Hyderabad — has embarked on a campaign to raise awareness among Muslim women about Muslim personal laws, even as the group expressed its opposition to the UCC.
The group’s president Asma Zehra, who is also a member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB), said that online and offline programmes are in the offing, with a workshop already having been conducted. The SCW’s current initiative is independent of the AIMPLB’s activities, she clarified.
The SCW’s move comes in the backdrop of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) efforts to introduce a uniform civil code (UCC) in the country. A number of socio-religion and political organisations have expressed their opposition.
