BJP-Ruled Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh Likely To Follow Uttarakhand Uniform Civil Code Move

uniform civil code: bjp-ruled rajasthan, uttar pradesh likely to follow uttarakhand move

Days after Uttarakhand’s move on Uniform Civil Code (UCC), two more BJP-ruled states – Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh – seem to bring the UCC soon. If cleared by Assembly, the UCC Bill will make Uttarakhand the first state in India to have one after Goa, where it has been operational since the time of Portuguese rule.

The controversial bill, Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya said, will be introduced in the state at “the right time”.

He recently “congratulated” Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Dhami for introducing the UCC Bill in the State Assembly.

Another BJP-ruled state, Rajasthan, has also given indications that the bill is under consideration. While congratulating Uttarakhand CM, state Minister Kanhaiya Lal Choudhary said: “We are making an effort to ensure that Rajasthan becomes the state after Uttarakhand (to implement the UCC Bill)…CM is in support of this. He has given directions for this, work will be done soon. This will be discussed in the current session and if the time is insufficient, it will be brought in the next session.”

BJP MLA Gopal Sharma also extended support to bringing UCC to Rajasthan.

“We too would want the same thing that Uttarakhand wants. The beginning is from ‘Devabhoomi’. Rajasthan is the land of valour, we too support the Uniform Civil Code…We welcome it and hope that it will be done in Rajasthan too soon…,” Sharma said.

UCC BILL IN UTTARAKHAND STATE ASSEMBLY

Tabled in Uttarakhand Assembly on Tuesday, the Bill proposes a common law on marriage, divorce, land, property and inheritance for all citizens irrespective of their religion in the state, excluding the Scheduled Tribes.

“With the aim of giving equal rights to the citizens of Uttarakhand, a Uniform Civil Code bill will be introduced in the Assembly today. It is a moment of pride for all the people of the state that we will be known as the first state in the country to move towards implementing UCC. Jai Hind, Jai Uttarakhand,” Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami said in a post on X.