#UCC In Uttarakhand

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UCC in Uttarakhand : विवाह व उत्तराधिकार संबंधी दोहराव वाले प्रविधानों को हटाने की तैयारी

देहरादून : UCC in Uttarakhand  प्रदेश में समान नागरिक संहिता को लागू करने से पहले इसकी नियमावली बनाने का कार्य चल रहा है। शासन इस समय नियमावली बनाने के लिए गठित समिति के ड्राफ्ट का अध्ययन कर रहा है। माना जा रहा है कि 424 पृष्ठों की इस नियमावली में कई प्रविधान ऐसे हैं, जो केंद्रीय नियमों का दोहराव हैं। WPL Auction : महिला प्रीमियर लीग में उत्तराखंड की चार बेटियां छाई सूत्रों की मानें तो ऐसे…

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Uniform Civil Code in Uttarakhand | Uttarakhand में UCC लागू | #uttarak...

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उत्तराखंड के समान नागरिक संहिता (UCC) के तहत, शादी, लिव-इन रजिस्ट्रेशन और वसीयत दस्तावेज़ों क�� लिए ऑनलाइन प्लेटफार्मों की सिफारिश की गई है, जिससे कानूनी प्रक्रियाओं को सरल और सभी के लिए सुलभ बनाया जा सके।

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Uniform Civil Code: Dhami Government Brought UCC Before Elections, Know What Changes Will Happen | Raj Express

The BJP-led government in Uttarakhand, under Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, will introduce the Citizen's Rights Bill in a special Legislative Assembly session on January 6, 2024. The draft was recently given to CM Dhami by a USC committee. Let's address the implications of implementing USC in the state and its impact on the public.

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Uttarakhand becomes the first state to enact common civil code law

UCC Uniform Civil Code Uttarakhand: Uttarakhand has become the first state in the country to make Uniform Civil Code and now the state government has also introduced a bill regarding this in the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday. It is felt that as soon as this bill is passed, it will take the form of law.

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The bjp government introduced the ucc bill in Uttarakhand which has made it mandatory for live in couples to register with the government and a copy of the registration will be sent to respective families. It also added the father as a first class legal heir for inheritance of property, encroaching upon the the right of the mother, wife, daughter (the actual victims of patriarchy, who most likely did not have any social right to gain access to financial independence or inheritance from other family members) to accommodate the father, who more than likely than not already has financial freedom and ownership rights over land property. Moving on, they removed the Muslim personal law, which guaranteed the rights of the daughter in a fixed inheritance percentage. Not to mention the whole act is modelled after hindu personal laws and demanding other religions to bend according to it is inherently regressive no matter how progressive the law on paper looks to be. So should I just bang my head against the wall right now and be done with it or watch as the bjp government slowly sets fire to all our lives?

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Last week, the Indian state of Uttarakhand passed a bill to adopt a controversial Uniform Civil Code (UCC), which will bring an end to religious or personal laws governing marriage, divorce, adoption, and inheritance, among other issues. The change will bring all communities together under a common law to regulate those practices. The new legislation has already faced pushback from Muslim leaders and other members of India’s political class.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hope that Uttarakhand will serve as a model for the introduction of a UCC across India, or at least across BJP-ruled states. Some of these states, including Assam and Modi’s home state of Gujarat, are already considering their own UCC bills and are keen to use the Uttarakhand code as a template, although they may tweak the legislation to address local needs. Despite its seeming impartiality, the UCC pushed by the BJP would be a threat to India’s religious pluralism.

The idea of a UCC has long caused consternation among India’s religious minorities, especially Muslims. Muslim politicians and religious leaders have suggested a UCC would amount to unwarranted interference in their community’s norms, especially when it comes to specific legal protections related to marriage, divorce, and inheritance. The Uttarakhand code even regulates live-in relationships—a clear nod to conservative Hindus, many of whom frown on such arrangements.

These critics’ misgivings are not without merit. The BJP has long pursued three contentious goals that impinge disproportionately on the interests of the Muslim community: the abolition of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, which granted special autonomous status to the Muslim-majority state of Jammu and Kashmir; the construction of a Hindu temple in the city of Ayodhya on the site of a mosque demolished by a Hindu mob in 1992; and the adoption of a nationwide UCC. It achieved the first goal in 2019, and the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya is not yet complete but was consecrated last month.

However, the idea of a UCC goes back decades to India’s foundations as an independent state. The subject was extensively debated by the constituent assembly that helped forge India’s constitution in 1949, but it was not resolved. Owing to the sensitivities of religious communities, most notably Muslims, no government was willing to tackle the politically fraught question. So why is it the unabashedly pro-Hindu BJP government—and not one controlled by the Indian National Congress party, which is committed to secularism—that has taken up the issue of the UCC? The answer requires a bit of historical exegesis.

The prevalence of separate personal laws for different religious communities in India can be traced to a colonial-era regulation. Warren Hastings, then the governor of Bengal and later the first British governor-general of India, directed in 1772 that “in all suits regarding inheritance, marriage, caste and other religious usages and institutions, the laws of the Koran with respect to the Mahomedans and those of the Shaster with respect to Gentoos [Hindus] shall be invariably adhered to.” In 1937, the British Raj enacted the Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act, which codified Islamic law for marriage, divorce, succession, inheritance, and other family affairs.

Those who drafted the Indian Constitution debated the necessity of a UCC, with most Muslim members against it. One of the principal architects of the constitution, B.R. Ambedkar, argued that if India could have a common criminal code, it could also have common personal laws, and suggested that a uniform civil code initially be voluntary. The framers instead settled for Article 44, a set of non-justiciable directives that range from prohibiting cow slaughter to curbing liquor consumption. It also called on the Indian state to endeavor toward a UCC for its citizens.

During Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s first term (1952-1957), the Congress party succeeded in codifying Hindu personal law through four pieces of legislation in the face of opposition. Conservative forces decried the move to meddle with Hindu personal laws, while reformists wondered why the changes were restricted to Hindus alone. But when asked about a uniform civil code, Nehru said that the time was not ripe for it.

The matter largely remained unaddressed until 1978, when Shah Bano—a recently divorced Muslim woman—sued her former husband in a lower court in central India for not providing alimony in accordance with the Indian penal code. The local court awarded Bano monthly basic maintenance, which was later increased by a high court. Bano’s husband, Mohammed Ahmad Khan, later challenged the matter before the Indian Supreme Court. Khan contended that he was not obliged to support his former wife under Muslim personal law because he had paid a dowry and three months’ maintenance.

In 1985, the Supreme Court not only rejected Khan’s appeal, but also came out in support of a nationwide UCC. At the time, Chief Justice of India Y.V. Chandrachud—the father of the current chief justice—asked why Article 44 remained a “dead letter,” noting that the Indian state lacked the “political courage” to enact a UCC. The judgment created a firestorm, especially among the Muslim community.

The Congress government led by then-Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi responded by passing the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act in 1986, which said that maintenance had to be paid only for the waiting period for a widowed or divorced woman, usually three months—effectively nullifying the Supreme Court ruling. The new law doused the controversy for the moment, but it also opened up the Congress government to charges of so-called minority appeasement. Today, the BJP tends to characterize the Congress party and others as placating Muslims and other religious minorities in the name of secularism.

Since the Shah Bano case, several court rulings have whittled away at Muslim personal law—but none more so than the 2017 Supreme Court ruling that determined the practice of instant triple talaq to be unconstitutional. The ruling came in response to women’s petitions challenging the practice, in which Muslim men can divorce their wives by uttering “talaq” (divorce) three times in quick succession. Indians across the political spectrum welcomed the judgment for advancing women’s rights, but some observers saw it as another step toward a UCC. The BJP government followed up with the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act in 2019, which made triple talaq a punishable offense.

The UCC indeed has the potential to bolster women’s rights in India by doing away with the anachronistic traditions of some religious groups. But improving the lot of Indian women does not appear to be what drives the BJP. Instead, the party’s pursuit of a UCC appears to be an attempt to stigmatize a particular faith under the guise of enhancing the status of women. (After all, if the BJP were truly concerned about women’s autonomy, it would not have sought to ban the dubious concept of love jihad, which suggests that Muslim men insidiously entice Hindu women into marrying them under questionable circumstances.)

Uttarakhand’s adoption of a UCC is a step toward fulfilling one of the BJP’s key election promises and a staple of its manifestos for the last three decades. Goa is the only other state that currently has a UCC, but its common law dates to the 19th century, when the state was under Portuguese rule. Despite efforts in other BJP-ruled states, a nationwide UCC may be some time away. Still, both Modi and Indian Home Minister Amit Shah have spoken about the idea, with Shah saying recently that the BJP “remains steadfast in bringing in UCC.”

India’s current political climate is far more amenable to the idea of a UCC than in the past. Modi and the BJP are very popular, and unlike the Congress party, they do not rely on Muslim voters to win elections. However, the situation is complicated by the fact that other religious minority groups such as Sikhs, as well as indigenous communities and the Dalit community, feel the potential of a UCC to infringe on religious and cultural rights. (The Uttarakhand code exempts the indigenous peoples of the state, who make up 3 percent of the state population but are present in greater numbers elsewhere.)

The BJP has succeeded in achieving its long-held goals in Indian-administered Kashmir and in Ayodhya. India’s national election is swiftly approaching, and the Modi government has a seemingly inexorable commitment to its Hindu nationalist agenda. If it returns to power this spring with a clear-cut parliamentary majority, the implementation of a nationwide UCC will likely figure prominently in its political priorities, pushing back against what remains of India’s commitment to religious pluralism.

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[ad_1] Bareilly: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Thursday highlighted the various initiatives undertaken in the state, reaffirming the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the "Devbhoomi" this month.Uttarakhand is the first state in the country to have UCC Read More [ad_2] Source link

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[ad_1] Bareilly: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Thursday highlighted the various initiatives undertaken in the state, reaffirming the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the "Devbhoomi" this month.Uttarakhand is the first state in the country to have UCC Read More [ad_2] Source link

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Committee handed UCC rules final draft to CM Dhami Uttarakhand

The Uniform Civil Code (UCC) will soon be put into effect in Uttarakhand. Today, the expert committee presented Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami with the draft of the UCC rules on Friday, October 18. CM Dhami stated that the implementation of UCC aims to ensure that all individuals receive fair justice and equal chances. Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami recently declared the government’s…

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UCC In Uttarakhand : 18 अक्तूबर को सीएम धामी को सौंपी जाएगी यूसीसी की नियमावली

UCC In Uttarakhand : समान नागरिक संहिता (यूसीसी) की नियमावली 18 अक्तूबर को सीएम पुष्कर सिंह धामी को सौंपी जाएगी। उसी दिन मुख्यमंत्री की अध्यक्षता में बैठक भी बुलाई गई है। नियमावली एवं क्रियान्वयन समिति की अंतिम बैठक के बाद नियमावली को प्रकाशन के लिए भेजा गया था, जो प्रिंट होकर आ गई है। yatra 2024 : केदारनाथ धाम में एक दिन में पहुंच रहे 23 हजार से अधिक श्रद्धालु समिति ने इसका ड्राफ्ट सौंपने के लिए…

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उत्तराखंड के UCC बिल में क्या है | Uttarakhand UCC Bill | #uttarakhand ...

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Implement UCC as early as possible, says Rajasthan BJP MLA

Rajasthan BJP MLA Balmukund Acharya has said that the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) should be taken up and implemented as early as possible.

Even though various BJP leaders and state Ministers have been talking about the UCC, the Rajasthan government has yet to take up the issue. Some time ago, state Minister Kanhaiya Lal Choudhary said that the state government was planning to introduce the UCC Bill in the Assembly much like Uttarakhand. However, no step has been taken by the Bhajanlal government so far.

Source: bhaskarlive.in

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State Government of Uttarakhand Releases Expert Committee Report on Uniform Civil Code

The State Government of Uttarakhand has made public the expert committee’s report on the Uniform Civil Code (UCC). This report marks a significant step towards potentially implementing a common set of laws governing personal matters such as marriage, divorce, inheritance, and adoption for all citizens, irrespective of religion. Shatrugan Singh, Chairman of the Rules and Implementation Committee,…

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BJP does what it says, now it has fulfilled its third promise!

Uttarakhand News UCC: The discussion about implementation of Uniform Civil Code in Uttarakhand has intensified, Dhami government is preparing to bring a proposal on it in the Assembly. Earlier, the Dhami cabinet approved the report of the expert committee formed on UCC. After its passage from the Assembly, Uttarakhand will become the second state of Daesh after Goa to implement UCC.