“Uniform Civil Code is the ideological commitment of the BJP to the people of India,” says Amit Shah

“Uniform Civil Code is the ideological commitment of the BJP to the people of 

India,” says Amit Shah 

 In an exclusive interview to ABP Asmita, Amit Shah, the Home Minister of
India and senior BJP leader, reiterated his party’s commitment to implementing the Uniform Civil
Code in India. Speaking to ABP Asmita’s Ronak Patel, a day after the elections were announced in his
home state, Shah gave his reasoning as to why the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) will break all records
and with a huge majority, once again, form the government in Gujarat.
On the ever-important question of India having a Uniform Civil Code Amit Shah said that it is part of
the BJP’s agenda, from the days of the establishment of the Jana Sangh. He said that it has always
been the Congress who opposed the Uniform Civil Code because the party itself practised the
politics of appeasement. Amit Shah said this in light of the fact that just days ago the Gujarat state
cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel had cleared a proposal to constitute a committee
to implement the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the state.
Asked about who would be the BJP’s CM face in Gujarat, Amit Shah was categorical in his answer
saying where is the question of change? The elections are being held under the leadership of
Bhupendra bhai, in the name of Bhupendra bhai, the people of Gujarat are contesting the elections
under the leadership of Bhupendra bhai, so it is natural that the people of Gujarat will stamp their
approval in his name.
In the course of the interview Shah said that the BJP’s biggest resolution is to make India number
one and that on the occasion of the Amrit Mahotsav, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced
that by 2047, on the centenary of India’s Independence, the country would be number one in every
field. He added that under the leadership of PM Modi, who hails from Gujarat, the country has
made such amazing developmental progress. Hence, in 2022 as well, the people of Gujarat will
give the BJP a thumping majority in the state.
When asked about the new entrant AAP in Gujarat and their touting of the Delhi Education Model
promising free education, Amit Shah scoffed at the political messaging. He said that the AAP party
does not know that education in Gujarat has been free since the year 1960. The kind of
development that has taken place in Gujarat and the results that have been achieved, no one in
the country could have ever imagined.
Upon being asked about the development index and how Gujarat has fared under the BJP’s double
engine sarkar, at the state and centre, the Union Home Minister, who has also been the Gujarat
State Home Minister, said that for 10 years, from 2004 to 2014, when there was no double engine
government and only the Narendra Modi's government in Gujarat, the Congress party at the
centre had stopped Gujarat from developing. He said those who wanted to invest in Gujarat were
raided; the Narmada project was stalled; AIIMS Gujarat was not getting permission and many
projects were not seeing the light of day. Shah said that he hails from a small village where there
used to be a 7-8 hours of power cut every day, but today every village in Gujarat gets 24-hour
electricity and the state is number one when it comes to its roads, ports, infrastructure, industrial
investment and exports. He added that the state is number one in good governance index and in
bringing foreign direct investments. According to Shah all this has been the result of a double
engine government.
Watch the full interview of Amit Shah only on ABP Asmita.
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