Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday stated a “secular civil code” is the necessity of the hour as the prevailing legal guidelines are “public civil codes” and are discriminatory. In his Independence Day speech from the ramparts of the Crimson Fort, Modi stated, “A big part of the nation believes, and that is true, that the civil legislation is definitely to some extent a public civil legislation. It discriminates (between folks) )”. He stated legal guidelines that divided international locations alongside ethnic strains and have been the reason for inequality had no place in trendy society. “What I need to say is that India ought to have a secular civil code. That is the necessity of the hour. Now we have been residing in a public civil code for 75 years. Now, we’ve to maneuver in direction of a secular civil code. Solely then can a civil code primarily based on faith be accomplish.
