Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled Uttarakhand on Monday became the first state in independent India to implement the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), which promotes equal laws for every citizen across all religions and standardises personal laws on marriage, divorce and property.
With the implementation of the UCC which applies to all people of Uttarakhand except those belonging to the Scheduled Tribe (ST) community, the BJP has fulfilled a major commitment made to people of the state ahead of the 2022 assembly polls which saw the party storming to power for a second consecutive term.
Chief Minister (CM) Pushkar Singh Dhami announced UCC’s implementation at a programme at his official residence in Dehradun, saying with this the constitutional and civil rights of people across all religions have become uniform.
“With the implementation of UCC, the BJP has fulfilled all its major ideological commitments including abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, illegalisation of triple talaq, the CAA and building of a Ram temple in Ayodhya,†the chief minister said.
He unveiled the notification on UCC, released its rules and regulations and launched a portal designed for the mandatory online registration of marriages, divorce and live-in relationships in the presence of his ministerial colleagues and members of the UCC drafting committee.
The CM was the first to register his marriage on the UCC portal. State Chief Secretary Radha Raturi handed over the certificate of his marriage registration to him.
