Personal laws or uniform civil codes have no bearing on the unity and integration of the country. A vast majority of the country has no interest in this so-called issue. Except for some extremist Hindu organizations and a handful of intellectuals who have been swayed by their propaganda without ascertaining the facts, no one in India thinks that the personal laws of the minorities pose a threat to the integrity of the country. In a healthy and true democracy, the majority decides the laws of governing the people but a religious majority does not impose its religious customs over the religious minorities. Let me elaborate.
Laws are of two kinds.
One which has bearing over the society and the other pertaining to an individual and his family. The laws concerning the society are same for every citizen whether they are criminal or civil laws. Among the laws concerning individuals and their families, the laws related to marriage, divorce, inheritance, and Waq f properties come under the minorities personal laws. Please understand that no gentleman of my country is interested in disturbing my liberty of how I marry, divorce or wish to distribute my personal property among my would be inheritors. Not all the laws pertaining to mutual relations within the community come under the Muslim Personal Law.