The Centre’s purported move to draft a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) for the country continued to roil politics in Kerala on Thursday.
Leader of the Opposition V.D.Satheesan dared Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] State secretary M.V. Govindan to deny that E.M.S. Namboodiripad had urged the All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) to agitate for a UCC in 1985.
He said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had set a bait for dividing society on majority and minority community lines with an eye on the looming 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) did not take the lure. Instead, it chose the path of moderation by withdrawing from potentially explosive street agitations against the Centre’s purported move to draft a UCC arbitrarily and without consultations with stakeholders, including minorities, tribes and Opposition parties, he said.
