UCC Bill: The Uttarakhand Assembly session will begin from February 5 and go on until eighth of the month, throughout which the Pushkar Singh Dhami authorities will desk the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill within the House for passage. The Secretariat of the Assembly issued a notification saying the dates of the upcoming Assembly session. Notably, the Chief Minister yesterday introduced that the federal government would introduce the UCC Bill within the Assembly. Sources stated that the federal government will carry the Bill within the House on February 6.
CM Dhami, on Monday, stated that the ultimate report by the UCC panel will likely be submitted to the federal government on February 2, after which it will likely be introduced to the cupboard. After its passage within the cupboard, the Bill will likely be launched within the Assembly.
Apart from this, the federal government will even current a invoice within the House for a ten per cent horizontal reservation in authorities providers for the state agitators and their dependents.
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BJP’s UCC vow
During the Assembly elections in 2022, the BJP had vowed to introduce the UCC within the state if the social gathering retained energy. Giving it a push, the federal government, when shaped after a thumping majority within the polls, constituted a panel on Uniform Civil Code underneath Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai on May 27, 2022.
Uniform Civil Code
Article 44 of the Constitution of India says that the state shall endeavour to safe a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) all through the territory of India. The UCC proposes a standard set of legal guidelines coping with marriage, inheritance, adoption, and different issues.
The Uniform Civil Code has been a degree of debate within the political corridors through the years, nevertheless, got here to be highlighted after Prime Minister Narendra Modi in June final yr batted for the implementation of the laws, in an tackle in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal.
What had PM stated?
PM Modi stated the nation can not run on two legal guidelines and that the Uniform Civil Code was consistent with the founding ideas and beliefs of the Constitution.
“Today, people are being instigated in the name of UCC. How can the country run on two (laws)? The Constitution also talks of equal rights…Supreme Court has also asked to implement the UCC. These (opposition) people are playing vote bank politics,” PM Modi had stated in Bhopal.
(With ANI inputs)
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