Govt committed to UCC  one poll PM Modi on BJP anniversary

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said a serious debate was underway in India on the twin agendas of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) and one nation, one election, and positive progress was being made on both fronts.

Addressing BJP cadres on the 46th foundation day of the party today, the PM made it clear that the government was committed to both the UCC and simultaneous polls. He declared the BJP’s pledge to hold the 2029 General Election with one-third seats reserved for women in the Lok Sabha.

He referred to the BJP’s resolution on women’s reservation passed in Vadodara in 1994 and said, “The BJP passed a resolution on women’s reservation in Vadodara and to raise women’s reservation in the party organisation. We have fulfilled that dream and are determined to hold the 2029 General Election with 33 per cent women’s quota in place.”

The PM was speaking ahead of the April 16 special session when the BJP-led NDA will move amendments to the existing laws in order to prepone the rollout of the 33 per cent women’s reservation in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies to 2029.

In the present form, the women’s reservation law (passed by Parliament in 2023) provides for the quota rollout only after delimitation following the 2026 Census.

The government will now move amendments to this law to delink quotas with the 2026 Census and roll it out after raising the seats in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies on the basis of delimitation conducted on 2011 Census data.

Modi said people considered the BJP the party that delivered what it promised unlike others who used politics for self-service.

“Before the BJP rule, the nation saw the dominance of dynastic politics. This form of politics is still in prevalence in some parts of the country. The nation also saw the Left’s governance model and then it saw our model which was unique and came with stability of policy and government. We delivered whatever we promised. And this has become our identity,” said Modi.

The PM hailed the party’s journey from political margins through 1980s to the pinnacle of electoral glory and said the BJP must discuss new goals going forward.

Noting the fulfilment of past promises — Ram Mandir, Abrogation of Article 370 in J&K, establishment of a new Parliament, abolition of triple talaq and the Citizenship Amendment Act, the PM described the UCC and one nation, one election as abiding pledges of the BJP.

“A debate is underway on the UCC and one nation, one election, and we are progressing positively,” the PM said.

He attacked the Congress for pursuing politics as a means to attain power and serving one family and added that the BJP was committed to ridding the country of the ills of demographic imbalance, illegal infiltration, dynastic politics and corruption.

“Only the BJP can root out these ills,” he said, describing two strains of politics in India — power-based politics pursued by the Congress and service-based politics pursued by the BJP.

Saluting the founders of the BJP and crediting new party president Nitin Nabin for reinvigorating the BJP with “newness”, Modi urged the party workers to recommit themselves to the goals of developed and self-reliant India.

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Courtesy: The Tribune -07-Apr-2026