Look, let's be real about what a uniform civil code actually means in practice. Right now, a Hindu woman can get maintenance after divorce, but a Muslim woman in the same situation might not, because her personal law says something different. How is that fair? We're all citizens of the same country, paying the same taxes, yet our basic rights depend on which religion we're born into.
I get that people worry about losing their religious identity. No one's saying you can't practice your faith. But shouldn't there be a baseline of rights that applies to everyone equally? If a Christian woman can inherit property but a Muslim woman can't under her personal law, that's not religious freedom — that's state-sanctioned inequality.
So I'd ask: why should your gender determine your legal rights more than your citizenship does?
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