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JD(U) won't oppose UCC if provisions are okay: Bihar Dy CM
Sep-15-2026

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Kumar Chaudhary said the JD(U) will study the Uniform Civil Code Bill and will ‘not oppose it for no reason’ if provisions are unexceptionable. Responding to queries about the political turbulence that has ensued after Union Home Minister Amit Shah's assertion that UCC will be implemented ‘across 22 NDA-ruled states before the 2029 Lok Sabha elections’, Bihar Deputy CM said, ‘As of now, we are not aware of the details of the legislation on UCC. Let it be placed before us. If we find there is nothing objectionable, why shall we oppose it without any reason, and if there are points of concern, these will be conveyed to the Union home minister’. He made these remarks during a press conference held at the JD(U) state office. 

However, Chaudhary maintained that ‘there is no reason to make haste in the matter’ and indicated that ‘our national working president Sanjay Kumar Jha has said that he will hold talks on the issue with none other than the Union home minister’. He sought to distance the JD(U) from the strident stance adopted by RJD, the main party in opposition, which has vowed to thwart the UCC's implementation in Bihar, alleging that it was ‘against the interests of Muslims’.

On Monday, senior JD(U) leader and Phulwari Sharif MLA Shyam Rajak had asserted that the party was opposed to implementation of the Uniform Civil Code in Bihar, even though it had ‘supported the UCC Bill’ in Parliament. He claimed that its stand on the issue had been clearly spelt out by the party's supreme leader Nitish Kumar.

The JD(U) leader also said a decision on Jha's proposal to rename the party as ‘JD(U) Nitish’ will be taken ‘when the matter is raised at the next meetings of the national executive and the national council’.


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