evidence: The Hindu right-wing rhetoric has pushed a common personal law as a counter to what they say are "regressive" personal laws of Muslims - they cite the example of triple talaq - the Muslim practice of "instant divorce" - which Mr Modi's government criminalised in 2019. The BJP's manifesto says there "cannot be gender equality till such time India adopts a Uniform Civil Code". [...] In other words, framing a UCC will open up a Pandora's Box with unintended consequences even for the country's Hindu majority, which the BJP professes to represent. "The UCC would disrupt the social life of Hindus as well as Muslims," he says. [...] Mr Ali believes that many BJP-ruled states may be pursuing the UCC not because it's particularly popular there or fetches more votes. "It is more to build their political capital, and ensure their survivability within the new BJP structure where they have to constantly burnish their Hindu credentials," he says.