Panaji: Muslims in Goa has demand that the Portuguese Civil Code be replaced by the Muslim Personal Law in Goa.The demand came at a meeting held in Margao on Sunday to oppose changes in the Shariat law at the national level.
The public meeting held at Housing Board Football ground at Rumdamoll by AIMPLB was attended by large number of Muslims.The meeting was presided over by Maulana Khalid Saifulla and other dignitaries. They fear that the BJP govt would bring in the Hindu Personal Law in the name of Uniform Civil Code. But, they have also opposed Goa’s Portuguese Civil Code.
“Constitution guarantees all the religious communities in the country to practice their own religions as per their religious scriptures. We should thus get the right to practice our own Personal Law”, stated Shaikh Shakeel while presenting the resolution.