Uttarakhand to pass Uniform Civil Code Bill on Feb 5? Here's what we know so far-

NewsBharati    27-Jan-2024 11:15:45 AM
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Dehradun, Jan 27: In a significant development, the Uttarakhand Assembly has been convened for a special one-day session on February 5 to discuss and pass the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill.
 
Uniform Civil Code Uttarakhand Feb 5

Before this, a five-member committee set up by the state government is expected to hand over its report on February 2 or February 3. The report is learnt to have emphasized gender equality and equal rights for daughters in ancestral properties.
 
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A note issued on Friday from the Uttarakhand Assembly Secretariat states, "Whereas Honourable Governor, Uttarakhand had summoned the Fifth Vidhan Sabha of Uttarakhand to meet for the second session of the year 2023 at 11AM on Tuesday, the 05th September, 2023, in the Sabha Mandap, Vidhan Sabha Bhawan, Dehradun and which as adjourned sine die on 08th September 2023 in continuation there of the Honourable Speaker of Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly again summoned the House from Monday, 5 February, 2024 at 11 am in the Sabha Mandal, Vidhan Sabha, Dehradun".
 
 

The UCC was one of the major poll promises of the BJP in the run-up to the state Assembly elections in February 2022. The committee was announced after the first Cabinet meeting of the newly-formed Uttarakhand government.

Once the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly passes the UCC, two other BJP ruled states – Gujarat and Assam – will pass more or less a similar Bill in their Legislative Assembly. If everything goes as per plan, three states will have enacted the Uniform Civil Code before the Lok Sabha elections in the next few months.