Original sentence: The Bharatiya Janata Party was to first party in the country to promise a uniform civil code if elected into power
Edited sentence: " Concluding that "Since monogamy is the law for Hindus and the Muslim law permits as many as four wives in India, errant Hindu husband embraces Islam to circumvent the provisions of the Hindu law and to escape from penal consequences." First, Justice Singh pointed out that "In India there has never been a matrimonial law of general application." Secondly, he mentioned "that a marriage celebrated under a particular personal law cannot be dissolved by the application of another personal law to which one of the spouses converts and the other refuses to do so.Apart from statute law a marriage was governed by the personal law of the parties.But this is not a Mohammedan country; and the Mohammedan Law is not the Law of the Land.In 1995, the Supreme Court of India was asked to review four cases where Hindu men had converted to Islam to marry a second wife.In the country, demanding a uniform civil code is seen negatively by religious authorities and secular sections of society because of identity politics.Justice Kuldip Singh harkened back to a 1945 case where the court had declared "If this were an Islamic country, where the Mohammedan Law was applied to all cases where one party was a Mohammedan, it might be that Plaintiff would be entitled to the declaration prayed for.The BJP was to first party in the country to promise it if elected into power.The Hindu fundamentalists include the Sangh Parivar and its political wing, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)—one of the two major political parties in India.The Hindu fundamentalists view this issue in concept of their law, which, they say, is secular and equal to both sexes.The basic question has been whether Article 25 of the same constitution which guarantees "right to freedom of conscience and free professions, practice and propagation of religion.The case is Sarala Mudgal v.The continuing controversy of Article 44 of the Indian constitution and its calls for a Uniform Civil Code have not receded over time, nor has there been any attempt to amend the constitution.They had taken up this issue mainly as a method to attack the Muslim community and gain Hindu support.Union of India, AIR 1995 SC 153, In each case, the first marriage had been solemnised under the Hindu Marriage Act of 1954