The Lok Sabha witnessed a verbal match between the Shiv Sena-BJP combine and the Opposition over the issue of the Supreme Court observation in favour of a common civil code. The issue cropped during zero hour when Sena’s Suresh Jadhav contended that if the country had to remain united, the court’s suggestion of July 23 for bringing into force such a code should be implemented. He drew support from his colleagues Chandrakant Khaire and Mohan Rawle and BJP’s Rasa Singh Rawat Jaipal Reddy, Basudeb Acharia of the CPI(M) and G.M. Banatwala of the Muslim League said the directive principle, which speaks about a uniform civil code, should be scrapped.‘Pandya case can’t be probed till Modi is CM’NEW DELHI: Opposition and BJP members clashed in the Lok Sabha after Congress’s S. Jaipal Reddy and LJP’s Ram Vilas Paswan raised the issue of the allegations levelled by the father of former Gujarat minister Haren Pandya with regard to his killing. Paswan said that Pandya’s father had told him about a letter he had written to the Dy PM. Reddy contended a fair probe into the murder of the former minister could not be conducted so long as Narendra Modi was the Gujarat CM. Madhusudan Mistri of the Congress was heard shouting: ‘‘It was a political murder. There should be an inquiry by a House committee.’’
