Owaisi attacks PM on Uniform Civil Code

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Hyderabad, Jun 27: AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for favouring a Uniform Civil Code, alleging that he wants to target Muslims and bring in a ‘Hindu Civil Code’ He also hit out at the Prime Minister over his remarks on Triple Talaq and Pasmanda Muslims in Madhya Pradesh.

“India’s Prime Minister is now talking about Uniform Civil Code. Are you going to snatch away pluralism, diversity in the name of Uniform Civil Code,” he told reporters here when asked about Modi’s comments at a gathering of party workers in Bhopal. “… He (PM) is not talking about Uniform Civil Code. He is talking about Hindu Civil Code. (They) will treat all Islamic references of practices as illegal and the Prime Minister will protect Hindu practices under the law,” he said. Observing that the BJP has 300 MPs, he said he “challenges” if the ‘Hindu Undivided Family” would be abolished and whether he would be able to do so?

He claimed that Modi should speak about the intention to bring in the UCC in Punjab and see what would be the reaction. “Prime Minister, I am saying again, wants to talk about Hindu Civil Code, wants to bring it. That is his purpose. The purpose is to target India’s Muslims and humiliate them,” he said.

He alleged that Modi does not accept uniformity and equality and wants to give exception to Hindus and outlaw Muslims’ religious practices. The Directive Principles of State Policy also mentions that India’s wealth be distributed among the people of the country and 50 per cent of the country’s wealth is with eight to 10 people, he claimed. Why does the PM not talk about it, he said. The Directive Principles also talk about putting an end to liquor and why a ban is not imposed on liquor, Owaisi said.

Owaisi quoted Ambedkar as having said that UCC should be voluntary. The Prime Minister on Tuesday pushed for implementation of a Uniform Civil Code in the country and said Muslims are being instigated over the sensitive issue as he attacked Opposition parties over corruption, terming their Patna conclave as a mere “photo-op”. Triple talaq was abolished in Egypt 80-90 years ago. If it is necessary, then why has it been abolished in Pakistan, Qatar and other Muslim-dominated nations, Modi said in a meeting in Bhopal today. Reacting to the Prime Minister’s remarks, Owaisi said though the NDA Government made a law against triple talaq, it did not make any difference at the ground level.

“Citing Pakistan, Modi ji has said that there is a ban on triple talaq. Why is Modi ji getting his inspiration from Pakistani law? He even made a law against triple talaq here, but it did not make any difference at the ground level. Rather, the exploitation of women has increased further. We have always been demanding that social reform will not happen through laws. If a law has to be made, then it should be made against those men who flee from their marriages,” he tweeted.

On the one hand the PM is shedding crocodile tears for Pasmanda Muslims, and on the other hand his pawns are attacking their mosques, taking away their livelihoods, bulldozing their homes and lynching them, Owaisi charged in the tweet. ‘Pasmanda’ is a term for backward classes among Muslims. (PTI)