UDF flays move for Uniform Civil Code

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The UDF has charged the BJP-led central government with  creating communal polarisation in the country and asked it to stop its move to impose  Uniform Civil Code. The UDF leaders, at a meeting held here on Monday,  alleged that the BJP was trying to rake up  unwanted controversies with an eye on the Uttar Pradesh elections. The meeting decided to intensify the  protest against the LDF government over the nepotism issue as well as  the fee structure in the self-financing private medical colleges.  However, the UDF decided against disrupting the  Assembly proceedings but would fight the LDF government’s flawed policies.  

“The BJP-led government’s intention is to divide the people and create communal problems. But this plan will be  thwarted by the Congress. Changing a society’s civil code will destroy the  secular mind of the country,” Opposition Leader Ramesh Chennithala told  reporters.  

He added that the people will foil  the  activities of terrorist organisations like Islamic State. The Muslim  community should not be targeted under  this pretext, he said. Muslim League leader P. K. Kunhalikutty also warned against alienating the minority communities  in the state. KPCC vice-president V. D. Satheeshan apprised the UDF leadership about the Peace School in Kochi.