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Assam Assembly Passes UCC Bill: The Assam Assembly passed the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill on Wednesday. With this, Assam has become the third state in the country and the first in the North-East after Uttarakhand and Gujarat to move towards implementing UCC at the state level.
The objective of this law is to make personal laws related to marriage, divorce, inheritance and live-in relationships uniform for all communities. However, Scheduled Tribes have been kept out of its scope.
Key provisions of the bill include a complete ban on polygamy, mandatory registration of marriages and divorces, and making registration of live-in relationships mandatory. Apart from this, a provision has been made to give equal rights in property to daughters and to fix the minimum age of marriage at 21 years for men and 18 years for women.
“Congress had raised the demand for UCC in 1925”: Himanta attacks opposition in Assam Assembly
During the discussion on the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill in the Assam Assembly, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma made a scathing attack on the Congress. He claimed that Congress was the first to raise the demand for UCC in 1925 and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru also supported it in 1937.
Sarma alleged that Congress is no longer a secular party and is only representing “a particular community”. He said that Congress is opposing UCC not on the basis of the Constitution or tribal traditions, but from the perspective of “Quran and Shariat”.
“Attempt to impose Hindu law on Muslims”: Owaisi’s attack on UCC bill
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has launched a scathing attack on the state government over the UCC bill passed in the Assam Assembly. Owaisi alleged that this was an attempt to “impose Hindu law through the back door” on Muslims.
He said that Hindu principles are being applied in matters like inheritance, property division and divorce, while it is being described as “common law”. Owaisi wrote on the social media platform ‘X’ that only Hindu culture is being protected, while Muslims are being forced to follow these rules.
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