NEW DELHI: Opposition parties on Friday said the Law Commission ’s views on Uniform Civil Code had not only vindicated their position but also taken the sting out of a perennial BJP campaign plank. In its consultation paper, the law panel said UCC was “neither necessary nor desirable at this stage”.Congress spokesman Abhishek Singhvi said, “We have in writing said in this climate of distrust and divisiveness, UCC is neither desirable nor possible nor feasible.It will be a needless, new diversionary gimmick.There is absolutely no political consensus on this issue. Each time we do things like this, we create a more fractured polity. Largely, the Law Commission has supported this conclusion.”CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury said the party’s position on UCC appeared to have been vindicated by the government’s own Law Commission. He said, “We had given in writing to the Law Commission that UCC needs wide scale consultations with all religious groups and that this exercise cannot be confined to reforming the personal laws of one particular religion.”Yechury added CPM had said issues like widow remarriage, inter-caste marriages within the Hindu Marriage Act and certain practices sanctioned by Christians, Buddhists and Jains also merited reform.“We have asked the Law Commission to build a consensus failing which any effort to reform a particular personal law will only wreck havoc and serve apolitical objective. It seems the Law Commission has given a similar opinion,” he said.