India moving towards ‘secular’ civil code, says Modi
The prime minister repeated the assertion that he had first made in his Independence Day speech on August 15.
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The country is moving towards a singular civil code that will be secular in nature, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday.
Addressing a gathering near the Statue of Unity in Gujarat’s Narmada district, the prime minister said that India was moving towards “one nation, one civil code”.
Modi was reiterating an assertion that he had made during his Independence Day speech on August 15.
During the Independence Day speech, Modi had said that the need of the hour was to implement a “secular civil code” in the country. Referring to the Uniform Civil Code in his speech, he said: “A large section of the country believes, and it is true, that the civil code that we are living with is actually a communal civil code.”
The Congress, however, said the prime minister’s claim that Indians are living with a “communal civil code” was a gross insult to BR Ambedkar.
Ambedkar was the head of the committee that drafted the Constitution. He was also independent India’s first law minister.
The Uniform Civil Code is a proposed common set of laws governing marriage, divorce, succession and adoption for all citizens. Currently, such personal affairs of different religious and tribal groups – except in Uttarakhand and Goa – are based on community-specific laws, largely derived from religious scripture.
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