The All India Muslim Personal Law Board on Wednesday handed over a draft of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) to the Law Commission, listing its objections to the proposed legislation and highlighting the rights that the enshrined for the community in the Constitution.
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With the Supreme Court fixing July 11 to hear pleas challenging the abrogation of Article 370, former J-K CM and Vice President of Jammu Kashmir National Conference Omar Abdullah said that using the law, they want to take back what was taken away from them.
"Let the draft come...nobody is opposing the law...there were discussions on the draft of UCC (in the meeting of Uddhav Thackeray faction)," Sanjay Raut said.
Nationalist Congress Party's Sharad Pawar faction leader, Clyde Crasto, on Tuesday, slammed NCP leader Ajit Pawar after he inaugurated the new party office near Mantralaya in Mumbai, earlier today.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's strong endorsement of the UCC brought it back to the spotlight. PM Modi said that the country cannot run on two laws and that Uniform Civil Code was part of the Constitution.
The plea stated that labelling drivers by way of uniform violated fundamental rights guaranteed under Articles 14, 19(1)(g) and 21 of the Constitution.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's strong endorsement of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) brought it back to the spotlight. PM Modi said that the country cannot run on two laws and that Uniform Civil Code was part of the Constitution.
"Article 370 was removed legally by the Parliament. Those who want to take the matter to courts can do so as they are open to all. But, article 370 is already dead...The dead cannot be brought back...," BJP spokesperson Altaf Thakur said on the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court to hear
Various petitions are pending before the top court challenging the validity of the law scrapping Article 370 of the Constitution and special status to Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcating the state into two Union Territories.
The mouthpiece of Shiv Sena (UBT) 'Saamana' on Sunday claimed that the Eknath Shinde along with 16 MLAs who were part of the split in Shiv Sena almost a year ago are going to be "disqualified" as per the Constitution.
"We met with the HM on a core demand for greater Tipraland, constitutional solution for the greater Tipraland. We met him along with other leaders, and we had a discussion," said the TIPRA Motha Party chief.