Shah Hits Back At Oppn On UCC, Art 370 Attacks

Union home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday lashed out at the Opposition for calling the Bharatiya Janata Party's agenda of Ram Mandir, abrogation of Article 370 and Uniform Civil Code (UCC) as communal and divisive, asking if they were calling the Supreme Court, which paved the way for the Ram Temple with a landmark 2019 verdict and upheld the scrapping of Article 370 this week, communal.

- Saubhadra Chatterji

In his intervention during the debate on the bills for women reservation in Jammu and Kashmir, and Puducherry assemblies, Shah refuted the Opposition on UCC and questioned if India's first President and the head of the Constituent Assembly, Rajendra Prasad, was communal for putting UCC in the directive principles of state policy.

The non-binding Article 44 of the Constitution says, "The State shall endeavour to secure for the citizens a uniform civil code throughout the territory of India." During the debate on The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Second Amendment) Bill and The Government of Union Territories (Amendment) Bill in the Lok Sabha, Trinamool Congress leader Saugata Roy called the BJP's core agenda of building a Ram Mandir, rolling out UCC and the abrogation of Article 370 as communal and divisive.