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President Droupadi Murmu connected Monday (November 3, 2025) addressed a peculiar league of the Uttarakhand Assembly organised arsenic portion of metallic jubilee celebrations of the enactment of the State. She hailed the legislature for bringing successful the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) and besides appreciated the passing of important laws similar Lokayukta, Uttarakhand Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms, anti-cheating among others.
The State had passed the UCC successful January this year. The instrumentality provisions a implicit prohibition connected practices similar triple talaq (customs related to matrimony and divorcement successful Muslim Personal Law). It besides ensures that women are fixed adjacent rights successful matters related to spot and inheritance rights.
The President is connected a 3 time sojourn to Uttarakhand from November 2 to November 4.
Addressing the MLAs successful Dehradun, Ms. Murmu said legislative assemblies are a cardinal pillar of India’s parliamentary system. She added that legislators are the astir important nexus betwixt the nationalist and the authorities and that if an MLA remains actively engaged successful solving nationalist problems and enactment for people’s welfare, the trusting enslaved betwixt the nationalist and their representatives volition beryllium unbreakable.
The President stressed that MLAs indispensable enactment with peculiar sensitivity for the payment and improvement of the underprivileged sections of society. She added that providing maturation opportunities to the younger procreation should besides beryllium their priority.
Appreciating the members of Uttarakhand Assembly for implementing the Uniform Civil Code Bill successful accordance with the Constitutional directive, the President added that the Assembly, since its formation, has passed implicit 550 Bills of large importance.
She besides noted that determination has been betterment successful respective parameters of the Human Development Index (HDI) and literacy complaint successful the State since its enactment successful 2000. She besides appreciated the State’s efforts towards women’s empowerment and said that she hopes that the fig of women successful the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly volition further summation successful the future.
Ms. Murmu besides urged the State to determination guardant connected the way of improvement portion preserving the acquisition bestowed to it.
Thanking the President for gracing the State Assembly for the peculiar session, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said her words volition proceed to usher the State for the adjacent 25 years.
“The inspiring words of the President connected the Uniform Civil Code further fortify our resolve. We stay continuously committed to the all-round improvement of the State and nationalist welfare,” said Mr. Dhami.
Uttarakhand Governor Lieutenant General Gurmit Singh (Retd) and Assembly Speaker Ritu Khanduri were besides contiguous connected the occasion.
Uttarakhand volition implicit 25 years of its constitution connected November 9.
