From demonetisation, the failure of various financial policies of his government and the problems in the health sector, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s performance has been zero. So he is scared, Member of Parliament E.T. Muhammed Basheer.
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NEW DELHI — Since Prime Minister Narendra Modi has nothing positive to show for his party’s nine-year rule at the Centre, he is desperately pushing for implementing the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the country only as an election agenda ahead of the impending Lok Sabha polls, the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) has said.
After a meeting in Malappuram on Wednesday, senior IUML members including the party’s Kerala state chief Sayyid Sadik Ali Shihab Thangal, the party’s national general secretary P.K. Kunhalikutty and Member of Parliament E.T. Muhammed Basheer said they will vociferously oppose the UCC, reports reaching here said.
The IUML leaders said that UCC was “not a Muslim issue”, but Modi was trying to project it as one.
They said that it was a last-ditch “trump card” being used by Modi with the 2024 election in mind as he has nothing to show for the nine-year-long rule by his government.
“It is an election-related agenda of the prime minister as he has nothing to show for this nine-year-long governance. He is trying to make an issue out of a non-issue and trying to fool the people. It will be strongly opposed by the party,” Kunhalikutty was quoted as saying.
The IUML, Basheer said, has always opposed the UCC and will continue to do so as it cannot be implemented effectively in the Indian scenario.
He said that in a country like India, which is full of diversity, where different religions have their own customs, practices and beliefs, UCC can never be implemented.
Basheer claimed that Modi was raking up this issue now as he was “scared” since “his track record in the last term and this one has not been very good”.
“From demonetisation, the failure of various financial policies of his government and the problems in the health sector, his performance has been zero. So he is scared,” he said.
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Photo: IUML leaders (from right) Syed Sadikali Shihab Thangal, P.K. Kunhalikutty, E.T. Mohammed Basheer, and P.M.A. Salam attending a leadership meeting at Panakkad in Malappuram on Wednesday. — Taken from The Hindu
