Binpur, March 28 -- Trinamool Congress General Secretary and MP, Abhishek Banerjee, slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party over the Uniform Civil Code Bill in Gujarat, alleging that the BJP will "dictate personal lives" if voted to power in West Bengal.

The Gujarat State Assembly recently passed the Gujarat Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill 2026, providing for mandatory marriage registration, equal maintenance rights for women across all religions and making registration of live-in relationships mandatory. The BJP government in Uttarakhand was the first one to pass legislation for UCC.

Addressing an election rally in Binpur Assembly constituency on Friday, Abhishek Banerjee said, "The BJP is trying to change the Constitution. They had stated th...