PM Modi pitches for uniform civil code, India can’t….

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Prime Minister Narendra Modi today, while addressing party workers under the party’s “Mera Booth Sabse Majboot” campaign in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, questioned if ‘triple talaq’ was inalienable from Islam, why it isn’t practised in Muslim-majority countries like Egypt, Indonesia, Qatar, Jordan, Syria, Bangladesh, and Pakistan.

Batting for the Uniform Civil Code, he said it doesn’t work to have “different set of rules for different members of a family” and a country can’t run on two laws. Egypt, whose 90 per cent population is Sunni Muslims, abolished triple talaq 80 to 90 years ago, he pointed out.

“Today people are being instigated in the name of UCC. How can the country run on two (laws)? The Constitution also talks of equal rights, the Supreme Court has also asked to implement UCC. These (Opposition) people are playing vote bank politics,” the PM said.