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New Delhi: Welcoming the Supreme Court observation on Uniform Civil Code, the Sangh Parivar on July 23 asked Opposition parties whether they would respect it in the same manner they wanted the saffron outfits to abide by the judicial verdict on Ayodhya.

Describing the apex court's observations as "significant", Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) spokesman Ram Madhav said, "it will not be out of place here to remind some of those parties which don't tire in pontificating day in and day out to organisations like Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) about the need to respect the apex court verdict in the Ayodhya matter.

"The country wants to know how much respect these very political parties have got towards the Supreme Court in this context."

He said the RSS expected the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and Opposition parties to take up the issue for discussion in the House in the current Parliament session and "let the people of the country know where lies the commitment of respective parties - in larger national integration or in narrow communal vote bank politics."

An elated Acharya Giriraj Kishore, senior vice-president of VHP, welcomed the apex court's observation and asked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government to immediately implement it.

Asked about the Muslim League's reaction that Supreme Court had no right to interfere in religious matters, he asked, "What is Ayodhya? It is also a matter of faith for us but they (Muslims) want us to abide by court verdict."

"If they cannot accept a common civil code, why don't they follow their own criminal code as well, which have harsher provisions ? Kishore asked.

PTI