'Cong wants to bring back Muslim personal law, BJP will bring UCC'

BHOPAL: Union home minister

Amit Shah

alleged on Friday that

Congress

's election manifesto promises to bring back

Muslim personal law

, while PM Narendra Modi's guarantee is to implement a

uniform civil code

(UCC) across the country.
Addressing a poll rally in Ashokenagar, in Guna Lok Sabha seat, on Friday afternoon, Shah said, "The country will be run on uniform civil code.

We have brought UCC in Uttarakhand. It is our promise, and Modi-ji's guarantee, that we will implement UCC throughout the country," he said.
"Listen carefully to the Congress manifesto. They have said, 'We will again implement personal law'," Shah said. "Tell me, what does personal law have to do with them? They want to bring back Muslim personal law. Can this country be run by Shariat? Do we have to bring back triple talaq? Rahul Baba can do anything he wants for appeasement politics, but so long as BJP is here we will not permit personal law."
"What kind of secular Constitution do you want in this country? Our Constitution is secular. The laws of this country cannot be on the basis of religion," he said.

Congress believes Muslims have the first right to the country's resources, but for BJP the poor, Dalits, OBCs and tribals have the first right, Shah reiterated.
Before leaving for Guna on Friday morning, Shah said here in Bhopal, "After Congress released its manifesto, people are inclined even more towards BJP because Congress, in its manifesto, has repeated its old appeasement habit. In Congress's manifesto, they said they will take the personal law forward."
In Rajgarh, where a tough contest is expected, Shah claimed it was on senior Congress politician Digvijaya Singh's advice that Rahul Gandhi had put "the personal law promise" in Congress's manifesto.
Shah said this election would be Digvijaya's last. "You should be ashamed, Diggy Raja. What is saffron terrorism? He (Diggy) addresses Pakistan's terrorist Hafeez Sayeed as 'Sahib'," Shah claimed.