DEHRADUN: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) election promise of implementing the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) will soon be a reality in Uttarakhand, chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said on Tuesday. Speaking at an event in New Delhi, Dhami said that the Uttarakhand unit of the BJP had, in the last Assembly polls, promised to the […]
The topic of Uniform Civil Code (UCC) dates back to the colonial period and later made its presence felt during post-independent India era where mostly women representatives in parliament, B.R. Ambedkar and Jawahar Lal Nehru spoke in favor of it. However, due to lack of consensus, UCC was introduced under Article 44 of the Directive Principles of […]