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Muslim spiritual and societal organisations person urged the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Assam authorities to heed their views earlier implementing the Uniform Civil Code (UCC).
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the draught UCC Bill would beryllium tabled successful the 126-member House connected May 26, the concluding time of a peculiar Assembly league that commenced connected May 21. The intent of the UCC is to enforce a single, unified acceptable of idiosyncratic laws governing marriage, divorce, inheritance, and adoption for each citizens, careless of faith.
Leaders of astatine slightest 10 organisations met successful Guwahati connected Saturday (May 23, 2026) and resolved to taxable a memorandum to the authorities seeking consultations earlier the projected authorities is introduced.
The organisations included 2 factions of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, Jamaat-e-Islami, Ahle Sunnat, Muslim Personal Law Board, Nadwatul Tamir, Milli Council, and the All Assam Minority Students’ Union.
Nadwatul Tamir organisational caput Maulana Farid Uddin Choudhury, who chaired the meeting, said the State authorities should not disregard stakeholders from the number assemblage earlier going up with specified a large decision.
“The substance is straight linked to Islamic spiritual practices and idiosyncratic laws, necessitating wider consultations with number spiritual and societal organisations earlier immoderate legislative move,” Hafiz Rashid Ahmed Choudhury, elder advocator and president of Assam Civil Society, said.
Implementing the UCC was 1 of the BJP’s promises for the April 9 Assembly elections. Soon aft taking an oath arsenic the Chief Minister for a 2nd consecutive term, Mr. Sarma said his authorities would present a instrumentality successful this regard.
He, however, said that the tribal colonisation and communities nether the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution would beryllium exempted from the purview of the UCC to support their customs and traditions.
Reading retired the caller government’s five-year imaginativeness successful the 126-member House connected May 22, Assam Governor Lakshman Prasad Acharya said the UCC would fortify societal harmony, justice, sex equality, and a modern, progressive society.
