Hyderabad, April 4 -- All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) MP Asaduddin Owaisi questioned the "uniformity" of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill, 2026, which was passed in the Gujarat Assembly on March 24, stating that the Scheduled Tribes (ST) were exempted from it.

Speaking with media persons in Ahmedabad on Saturday, April 4, Owaisi sought to know if there was anybody who had seen the Justice Ranjana Desai report and what its findings were, based on which the Bill was drafted.

Owaisi observed that the Bill was brought in only in the wake of the upcoming local body elections in Gujarat.

He said the sections of the Hindu Marriage and Divorce Act and the Hindu Succession Act were being implemented for all the communities excep...