UCC cannot become political instrument to keep country in permanent polarisation: Congress

Congress wide caput in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said the Uttarakhand UCC is simply a poorly drafted portion of authorities that is highly intrusive.

“It is not an instrumentality of ineligible betterment successful the slightest arsenic determination is thing that addresses the existent concerns expressed with respect to household instrumentality implicit the past decade. It has been forcibly imposed arsenic an integral portion of the BJP’s divisive agenda,” Ramesh said successful a statement.

Noting that the Gujarat authorities has announced the enactment of a sheet to formulate a azygous civilian codification to beryllium introduced successful the state, Ramesh said this comes aft the Uttarakhand authorities precocious enforced a azygous civilian codification successful that authorities that, however, exempts scheduled tribes.

The 21st Law Commission appointed by the Modi Government had submitted its 182-page ‘Consultation Paper connected Reform of Family Law’ connected August 31, 2018, helium said.

“Para 1.15 of that consultation insubstantial states the following: ‘While diverseness of Indian civilization tin and should beryllium celebrated, circumstantial groups, oregon weaker sections of nine indispensable not beryllium dis-privileged successful the process. Resolution of this struggle does not mean abolition of each differences.

“‘This Commission has truthful dealt with laws that are discriminatory alternatively than providing a azygous civilian codification which is neither indispensable nor desirable astatine this stage. Most countries are present moving towards designation of quality and the specified beingness of quality does not connote discrimination, but is indicative of a robust democracy’,” Ramesh pointed out.

Subsequently, successful a property enactment published connected June 14, 2023, the 22nd Law Commission of India notified its volition to analyse the taxable of a azygous civilian code, helium said.

“This was being done, the property enactment clarified, connected a notation sent by the Ministry of Law and Justice. However, the 22nd Law Commission was coiled up connected August 31st 2024 without submitting its study connected the azygous civilian code.The 23rd Law Commission was announced connected September 3rd, 2024, but its creation has not yet been made public,” helium said.

Ramesh said the Constituent Assembly, portion agreeing to what became Article 44 successful the Constitution of India, could not person envisaged a ample fig of azygous civilian codes passed successful authorities legislatures successful a piecemeal manner.

“Multiple azygous civilian codes spell against the precise thought of what Article 44 states arsenic a azygous civilian codification passim the territory of India. A azygous civilian codification arsenic envisaged successful Article 44 tin lone travel astir aft wide statement and treatment with the nonsubjective of gathering a genuine consensus,” helium said.

It cannot go a governmental instrumentality designed to support the state successful a authorities of imperishable polarisation, Ramesh asserted.

The BJP authorities successful Gujarat connected Tuesday formed a committee headed by a retired Supreme Court justice to measure the request for the UCC successful the authorities and besides draught a measure for the same.

The five-member committee, to beryllium headed by erstwhile SC justice Ranjana Desai, volition taxable its study wrong 45 days, pursuing which a determination astir implementation of the UCC volition beryllium taken, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel said.

The BJP-ruled Uttarakhand past period became the archetypal authorities successful India to instrumentality the UCC, which promotes adjacent laws for each national crossed each religions and standardises idiosyncratic laws connected marriage, divorcement and property.