evidence: His statement on the UCC — a divisive issue on which several minority communities have often expressed reservations — comes at a time when the country’s political calendar for the next one year is packed with Assembly polls in five States and the 2024 General Elections. It also comes less than a fortnight after the 22nd Law Commission of India sought fresh suggestions from various stakeholders, including public and religious organisations, on the UCC. [...] All India Majlis e Ittehadul Muslimeen leader Asaduddin Owaisi said that when "Mr. Modi speaks on the UCC he is only talking of implementing a Hindu Civil Code, stripping all Islamic references. I ask him whether he can abolish the Hindu United Family tax exemptions, or the Special Marriage Act, or even remove Article 371 which accords special status for 11 States, including six States of the north-east. Can he talk of UCC in Punjab, to the Sikhs," he asked.