Author: Parjan Kumar Jain, Delhi
Publication: The Times of India
Date: January 31, 2003
URL: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/comp/articleshow?artid=35891953
In the edit 'Jhanda & Agenda'
(Jan 23), it is stated that Hindutva’s main props are Ayodhya, Article
370 and Common Civil Code. Agreed that Ayodhya is a prop of Hindutva; but
a Common Civil Code is a directive principle of our Constitution.
It had the support of Jawaharlal
Nehru, B R Ambedkar and other stalwarts of secularism.
In fact the Common Civil Code is
opposed by fanatic Muslims only. More than anybody else, its enforcement
will help Muslim women, who form 50 per cent of the Muslim population.
How can it then be a prop of Hindutva?
