Amit Shah : constitutional agenda signed by first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru but the Congress party later ignored it due to its appeasement
The country's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, signed the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), which Union Home Minister Amit Shah claimed on Saturday is a "constitutional agenda" that the Congress disregarded out of political appeasement.
The BJP has had UCC on its agenda ever since the Jana Sangh era. However, the Constitution's agenda is the UCC. The authors of the Constitution stated that UCC must exist at the appropriate time in Article 44. Rajendra Prasad, Maulana Azad, Jawaharlal Nehru, and others have all signed it. "The BJP had not even been formed at that point," Shah stated at the ET NOW Global Business Summit in 2024.
But in your attempt to appease, you overlooked UCC. The BJP has held on to UCC. The UCC was brought in Uttrakhand because social change is at issue. It will be debated in all forums and subject to judicial review. I think UCC will be adopted by all states after all the talks. Civil codes based on religion are inadmissible in a secular nation, he continued.
