AIMPLA Executive Meeting Tomorrow; Topics Up For Discussion Include UCC And Gyanvapi

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLA) has called for an Executive Committee meeting in Lucknow tomorrow.

The meeting is expected to cover topics such as Gyanvapi, the Uniform Civil Code, and Religious Conversion, among others.

“Future strategy will also be engineered in the said meeting,” AIMPLA Executive Member Qasim Rasool Ilyas told the press.

All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi, Board General Secretary Khalid Saifullah Rahmani, and Arshad Madani are among the 51 Executive members of the AIMPLA.

It is to be noted that earlier, Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju in Rajya Sabha told BJP MP Nishikant Dubey that a proposal to examine issues relating to Uniform Civil Code and make recommendations may be taken up by the 22nd Law Commission.

The proposal was forwarded to the 21st Law Commission, but since its term has come to an end, the matter may be handled by the 22nd Law Commission, the minister informed Dubey, who had brought up the matter as a matter of urgent public interest on December 1 of last year in the Lok Sabha.

“In view of the importance of the subject matter and sensitivity involved and it requiring an in-depth study of provisions of various personal laws governing different communities, a proposal to examine issues relating to uniform civil code and make recommendations has been forwarded to the 21st Law Commission of India,” Rijiju stated in his letter.

Dubey had pleaded with the party-led central government to expedite the introduction of a law to put the Uniform Civil Code into effect.

What is Uniform Civil Code (UCC)?

The Uniform Civil Code (UCC) calls for the formulation of one law for India, which would be applicable to all religious communities in matters such as marriage, divorce, inheritance, adoption.

The term, ‘Uniform Civil Code’ is explicitly mentioned in Part 4, Article 44 says, “The State shall endeavour to secure for the citizens a uniform civil code throughout the territory of India.

The issue has been at the center of political narrative and debate for over a century and a priority agenda for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which has been pushing for the legislation in Parliament.