India News | BJP Talking About UCC to Divert Attention from Its Failures: Harish Rawat
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Senior Congress leader and former Uttarakhand chief minister Harish Rawat on Friday said the BJP is repeatedly talking about a Uniform Civil Code to divert the attention of people from the failures of the party's governments in the state and at the Centre.
Dehradun, Feb 2 (PTI) Senior Congress leader and former Uttarakhand chief minister Harish Rawat on Friday said the BJP is repeatedly talking about a Uniform Civil Code to divert the attention of people from the failures of the party's governments in the state and at the Centre.
He also said calling the proposed law a Uniform Civil Code is not correct as its area of operation will be confined to a state.
"How can a code whose application will be confined to a single state be called uniform?" he asked.
Beyond the boundaries of the state the UCC will have no meaning, he said.
"UCC is being used by the BJP to divert attention of people reeling under inflation, corruption and unemployment. Neither the Centre nor the Dhami government in Uttarakhand has done any development work," he said.
The people of Uttarakhand will not gain anything from the UCC even if it becomes a law, he said and questioned the justification of wasting crores of rupees on the exercise.
The state government-appointed panel to draft the UCC submitted the document to Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami here early on Friday.
A special session of the state assembly has been convened from February 5 to 8 to discuss the matter.
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