PTI, NEW DELHI: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board today said the Law Commission chief has conveyed to it that the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code was not possible in India in the next 10 years.
A delegation of AIMPLB, the apex decision-making body on issues relating to Muslims, today met Law Commission chairman Justice (retd) B S Chauhan and apprised him about its strong opposition to the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), members of the board said after the meeting.
The board also made it clear to Chauhan that it would not accept any change in the Muslim personal law as it was “divine” and based on religious text, AIMPLB member S Q R Ilyas told reporters.
Bringing a UCC has been one of the core issues for the BJP. The Law Commission has been taking views of all political parties on UCC, which seeks to replace all personal laws of various religions with a common set of rules governing every citizen.
AIMPLB vice president Syed Jalaluddin Umri, who led the delegation, said, “The good thing is that he (Chauhan) said that in India there is no possibility of a common civil code, for at least 10 years no government should deal with this issue.” “We said that not just for the next 10 years, it should not be dealt with at all,” he said.
He also said that Chauhan did not comment whether the AIMPLB’s stand was right, but it came to the fore during the meeting that in the current circumstances it was not possible.
