Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal lashed out at the BJP-led Gujarat government over its recent decision to constitute a committee to implement the Uniform Civil Code. Insisting that ‘their intention is bad’, the Aam Aadmi Party chief urged the BJP to implement UCC across the country if it wished to do so. The Election Commission is likely to announce the schedule for the Gujarat Assembly polls next week.
“It is written in the Constitution that it is the responsibility of the government to create a Uniform Civil Code. UCC should be formed by taking inputs from all communities. BJP’s intention is bad. The committee was formed before the Uttarakhand and now Gujarat elections. After the polls the committee went home. Why not make it for Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh or for the whole country?” the AAP chief asked
He also wondered whether the BJP-led central government was waiting for the Lok Sabha elections to make a move in this direction.
“If their intention is to implement the Uniform Civil Code, then why don’t they frame it nationally and implement it across the country? Are they waiting for the Lok Sabha elections? So first ask them that Kejriwal is saying you do not want to implement the Uniform Civil Code…your intention is bad,” he said.
The Gujarat government on Saturday said it has decided to form a committee headed by a retired High Court judge to implement the Uniform Civil Code. According to Union minister Parshottam Rupala, it will be formed before the model code of conduct for elections comes into force.
On the third day of his visit to poll-bound Gujarat, Kejriwal welcomed local Koli community leader and social worker Raju Solanki into the AAP alongside his son Brijrajsinh Solanki. The Koli community comes under the Other Backward Classes category with numerically significant presence in different parts of Gujarat.
