Senior Congress leader V D Satheesan on Sunday said the uniform civil code (UCC) proposal, recently mooted by the prime minister, was to divide the country and not for implementation. Speaking to reporters in Kochi on Sunday, Satheesan, the leader of the Opposition in the Kerala Assembly, said the Congress party will speak on the matter at the right.

He said the BJP government at the Centre was trying to create fissures between Muslims and Hindus, thus fomenting communal divide in the country to garner votes. The debate over UCC gathered momentum after PM Narendra Modi on June 27 pushed for its implementation. Meanwhile, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Sunday said her party is not opposed to the idea of a UCC, but to the way the BJP government is seeking to implement it.