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Ex CM Shanta Kumar demands Uniform Civil Code in India

Palampur, July 12 (UNI) Former Chief Minister and senior BJP leader Shanta Kumar today expressed shock over news that Jalaluddin Chhagun Baba has been working to convert thousands of Hindus to Islam through his center in Uttar Pradesh for the last 15 years, and demanded that the Uniform Civil Code be implemented in the country as soon as possible.
Shanta Kumar wanted to know what the intelligence agencies had been doing and why during the eleven years of BJP rule in UP, this was being allowed to carry on. He said that People of the entire country were shocked over this news
He said that the accused received about Rs 1,500 crore in 40 accounts from Muslim countries via Nepal and that thousands of Hindus were converted to Islam by luring them with money.
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