Congress wants to bring Sharia law through the back door, says Amit Shah, targeting Digvijaya Singh on his home turf

Amit Shah vows BJP will implement Uniform Civil Code, accuses Congress of wanting to bring back triple talaq.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah alleged on Friday that the Congress wanted to “bring back Muslim personal law and triple talaq” and pledged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would implement the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) across the entire country. 

Addressing poll rallies in Madhya Pradesh’s Guna and Rajgarh Lok Sabha constituencies, Mr. Shah said, “Read the Congress manifesto carefully. They have said that we will re-implement the Muslim personal law and triple talaq. You tell me, can this country be run by Sharia [law]? Rahul [Gandhi] baba, do whatever you want to do for appeasement. But as long as the BJP is there, we will not allow [Muslim] personal law to be implemented.”

“This country will be run by UCC, this is the spirit of our Constitution. We have brought UCC in Uttarakhand and it is [Prime Minister Narendra] Modi ji’s guarantee that we will implement UCC across the country,” the BJP leader said, on the same day that second phase polling took place.

Mr. Shah also claimed that these “promises were added in the Congress manifesto on the advice of [senior Congress leader and Rajgarh candidate] Digvijaya Singh”.

“Modi ji has given first priority to [Scheduled Castes] SCs, [Scheduled Tribes] STs, and [other backward classes] OBCs in the development of this country. But the Congress says that Muslims have the first right on the resources of this country. We will not let the intentions of the Congress be fulfilled,” he said, echoing Mr. Modi’s controversial remarks at a rally in Rajasthan earlier this week.

The BJP has fielded Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia from Guna to take on the Congress’ Rao Yadvendra Singh, who had switched over from the BJP ahead of the 2023 State Assembly election. Mr. Scindia, who lost the 2019 Lok Sabha election from Guna on a Congress ticket, joined the BJP in March 2020 as he led a rebellion of more than 20 MLAs to bring down the Kamal Nath-led Congress government in the State.

Another fierce contest is expected in Rajgarh, the home constituency of Mr. Singh, a former M.P. Chief Minister and senior Congress leader. He is challenging the sitting BJP MP Rodmal Nagar.