Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day address and his “communal civic code” statement on Thursday, calling them an insult to Dalit icon Dr. BR Ambedkar. He said PM Modi’s capacity for “malice, mischief, and maligning” of history was on full display at the iconic Red Fort.
Today, during his longest speech in 11 years, PM Modi said there was a need for a secular civil code as the existing civil laws were discriminatory. He said the current civil code was communal.
“A large section of the country believes, which is true also, that the civil code is actually in a way a communal civil code. It discriminates (among people),” PM Modi said.
“I would say, it is the need of the hour that India should have a secular civil code. We have lived 75 years with a communal civil code. Now, we have to move towards a secular civil code. Only then would religion-based discrimination end. It would also end the disconnect the common people feel,” PM Modi added.
Jairam Ramesh slammed the remark and the speech.
“The non-biological PM’s capacity for malice, mischief, and maligning of history knows no bounds. It was on full display today from the Red Fort. To say that we have had a ‘communal civil code’ till now is a gross insult to Dr Ambedkar, who was the greatest champion of reforms in Hindu personal laws that became a reality by the mid-1950s. These reforms had been bitterly opposed by the RSS and the Jan Sangh,” he wrote on X.
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Source: HT
