So why is a concern when the BJP brings up uniform civil court? In a nutshell, the worry is that the main aim of a BJP sponsored uniform civil court has not gender justice, as the party claims, but singling out minorities. BJP has denied sectarian agendas, claims it is acting in the interests of all women and at the political and liberal resistance to a uniform. Civil court is yet more evidence of what the BJP calls minority appeasement. We sift the truth from the hype of the party's claims. Now on paper, it is true that the BJP's most recent Lok Sabha manifesto for the 2019 elections says a uniform civil code will protect the rights of all women. But in its rhetoric, the BJP, in the wider sang a parrot bar has clearly signalled that the Uniform civil code is primarily meant to remove discriminatory practises in Muslim personal law like polygamy. Metrojet Nam you Salma logo Camilla Sop Look Satya UCC point Masson malarkey, Nisa take aim era has been Mira Tintin show telly wife like a It's common sing in cardiology, you know minimum are Muslim by no pony and Georgia Mari Hindu by and hopefully ona salmon. Narcotics. Tahiti. A lot, too, honey, This is what Nitin God, Carrie, union minister, said in December 2022. If a man marries a woman, that is natural. But if a man marries four women that is unnatural, the progressive, educated amongst the Muslim community do not marry four times the uniform civil court is not against anyone. Religion. It is for the development of the nation. Benimon. This rhetoric of Muslim polygamy is vastly exaggerated, ignoring the more complex reality of the phenomenon in India. In a consultation paper on the Uniform Civil Court produced in 2018 during the term of the first Modi government at the request of the Law Ministry, the National Lock Commission found that polygamy is a rare practise amongst Indian Muslims and is frequently misused by non Muslims who convert to Islam solely for polygamy. In fact, government data from the National Family Health Survey shows that polygamy is almost equally prevalent between both communities, with barely a gap between both
