Uniform civil code is only an election plank, says AMU Prof

HYDERABAD: Implementing Uniform Civil Code (UCC) is quite difficult in a countIndia where every region has a different culture and tradition. For a long
time UCC has been a poll plank that is forgotten soon after elections,
observed Prof. Faizan Mustafa, department of law, Aligarh Muslim University.

He was delivering the first Sughra Humayun Mirza memorial lecture on ‘Indian
constitution, gender equality and Uniform Civil Code’ in Maulana Azad
National Urdu University (MANUU) campus here on Thursday. The event was
organised by the department of women education (DWE) in collaboration with
Safdaria girls high school, Hyderabad.

Prof. Mustafa said that opposition to UCC on the basis of freedom of religion will not sustain. The right to culture under Article 29 is a better option, he opined.

Prof. Mustafa said that social reformer Sughra Humayun Mirza, encouraged
girls and women to get educated.

Prof. Syed Ainul Hasan, vice-chancellor of MANUU, who presided over the
function, said that it was important for girls and women to be educated to survive in the competitive world. MANUU is an active promoter in this regard, he said.