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Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami connected Tuesday, January 27, 2026 said that the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code successful the authorities has ushered successful a caller epoch of women's empowerment.
Addressing a programme marking the archetypal day of UCC implementation, celebrated arsenic 'UCC Day', Mr. Dhami said that discrimination, inequality, and injustice prevailed successful nine owed to antithetic idiosyncratic laws for definite communities.
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He said, "The implementation of the UCC has not lone fixed adjacent rights to each citizens of the authorities but has besides ushered successful a caller epoch of women's empowerment successful the state." "Not a azygous lawsuit of 'halala' has been reported since the implementation of UCC," the main curate said.
Mr. Dhami said, "Now the Muslim sisters and daughters of Uttarakhand person been freed from societal evils similar halala, iddat, polygamy, kid marriage, and triple talaq. Not a azygous lawsuit of halala has been reported successful Uttarakhand since the implementation of the UCC, and that is wherefore Muslim women person welcomed this law." The main minister, however, besides said that immoderate cases of polygamy person been reported successful the state, and the strictest enactment volition beryllium taken against them.
Uttarakhand is the archetypal authorities successful the state to instrumentality the UCC.
Mr. Dhami said that for decades aft independence, owed to "vote slope politics", nary 1 dared to instrumentality the UCC, portion a azygous codification is already successful unit successful each developed and civilised countries, including large Muslim nations.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami during Devbhoomi Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Day celebration, successful Dehradun connected Tuesday. | Photo Credit: ANI
He said that each the framers of the Constitution, including Baba Saheb Ambedkar, had included the UCC successful the Directive Principles of State Policy nether Article 44 of the Constitution.
Mr. Dhami said that earlier the 2022 Assembly elections, helium had promised to bring the UCC, and the nationalist supported him connected this.
Mr. Dhami said that enactment started arsenic soon arsenic the caller authorities was formed, and aft completing each the procedures, it was implemented connected January 27, 2025.
Describing this time arsenic a "golden chapter" successful the past of Uttarakhand, helium said that it was a substance of immense idiosyncratic pridefulness for him that helium had successfully implemented the law.
The main curate reiterated that the UCC is not against immoderate religion oregon sect, but alternatively a ineligible effort to destruct societal evils and found "equality and harmony" among each citizens.
He said, "Through this law, the cardinal beliefs and practices of immoderate religion person not been changed; lone the harmful practices person been removed." Mr. Dhami said that the authorities authorities precocious brought an ordinance related to indispensable amendments successful the UCC, nether which determination is simply a proviso to annul marriages if a idiosyncratic conceals their individuality oregon provides mendacious accusation astatine the clip of marriage.
He said that, on with this, strict punitive provisions person been ensured for immoderate benignant of force, coercion, fraud, oregon amerciable acts successful matrimony and live-in relationships.
Mr. Dhami besides honoured the officers who contributed to the UCC and those who did commendable enactment successful its registration.
