PM Modi’s ‘communal civil code’ remark an insult to Ambedkar, says Congress
In his Independence Day speech, the prime minister said that the ‘civil code that we are living with is actually a communal civil code’.
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The Congress on Thursday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “communal civil code” remark during his Independence Day speech was a “gross insult” to BR Ambedkar.
In his speech at Delhi’s Red Fort, Modi called for discussions on implementing a Uniform Civil Code in the country, saying that it needed to be “secular” and not “discriminatory”.
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.
Referring to the Uniform Civil Code in his speech, Modi 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 prime minister added that the “need of the hour” was the implementation of a “secular civil code” in the country. “Only then would we be free of the discrimination on the basis of religion.”
In response to Modi’s remarks, Congress MP Jairam Ramesh said that the “non-biological PM’s capacity for malice, mischief, and maligning of history knows no bounds”.
In a post on X, Ramesh added: “To say that we have had...
