CPI accused the centre of using the Uniform Civil Code as an electoral "trump-card". (File)
Hyderabad:
Accusing the BJP of using the Uniform Civil Code as just another election "trump-card", the Communist Party of India today said that the ongoing debate over reform of Muslim personal laws was only a "diversionary tactic" and targeted the minorities.
"Some reform must come into it (personal laws) but it is necessary to convince the minority community (about the need for it)," CPI general secretary S Sudhakar Reddy said.
He also claimed that the Uniform Civil Code was a "diverse and complex issue" and not particularly "urgent at the moment" since the country faced "many other problems".
"This debate is being brought as a diversionary tactic. There is necessity to discuss the issue in the Muslim community itself, and create a consensus about reforms," he said.
"It is not something urgent to divide the nation on this issue and I don't think the government is serious in bringing the code. This debate before the Uttar Pradesh elections is aimed at reaping political dividends only," Mr Reddy said.
He also said that he wasn't hopeful that the government would take any concrete steps towards reassuring minorities, and that it would rather be interested in keeping the issue "simmering" till the 2019 polls.
"This debate may continue till 2019. It is another trump-card like Ayodhya, so called nationalism, patriotism to cover up pro-corporate, anti-labour, anti-people policies of the central government. They are likely to keep this as an important point of debate," Mr Reddy said.
"Some reform must come into it (personal laws) but it is necessary to convince the minority community (about the need for it)," CPI general secretary S Sudhakar Reddy said.
He also claimed that the Uniform Civil Code was a "diverse and complex issue" and not particularly "urgent at the moment" since the country faced "many other problems".
"This debate is being brought as a diversionary tactic. There is necessity to discuss the issue in the Muslim community itself, and create a consensus about reforms," he said.
"It is not something urgent to divide the nation on this issue and I don't think the government is serious in bringing the code. This debate before the Uttar Pradesh elections is aimed at reaping political dividends only," Mr Reddy said.
He also said that he wasn't hopeful that the government would take any concrete steps towards reassuring minorities, and that it would rather be interested in keeping the issue "simmering" till the 2019 polls.
"This debate may continue till 2019. It is another trump-card like Ayodhya, so called nationalism, patriotism to cover up pro-corporate, anti-labour, anti-people policies of the central government. They are likely to keep this as an important point of debate," Mr Reddy said.
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