Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Tuesday presented the much-anticipated Uniform Civil Code (UCC) bill in the state assembly amid ‘Vande Mataram’ and ‘Jai Shri Ram’ chants by saffron party lawmakers. The draft proposes uniform civil laws for all communities in the state.

Reacting to the development, Uttarakhand leader of the opposition, Yashpal Arya, said they were not against the UCC bill but BJP was trying to ‘suppress’ them on the strength of their numbers in the Assembly.  

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“We are not against it (Uniform Civil Code). The House is governed by the rules of conduct of business but BJP is continuously ignoring it and wants to suppress the voice of the MLAs based on the strength of numbers,” Arya told news agency ANI.

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“It is the right of the MLAs to express their views in the House, during Question Hour, whether they have a proposal under Rule 58 or under other rules, they have the right to raise their voices on various issues of the state in the Assembly,” the Congress leader added.

Senior Congress leader and Former Uttarakhand CM Harish Rawat said the rules were not being followed while implementing the UCC as no one had draft copies in this regard. He said the Centre was using a sensitive state like Uttarakhand for tokenism and that they should implement the bill in the Centre if they were really serious about it.

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“No one has the draft copy and they want an immediate discussion on it... The Central Government is using a sensitive state like Uttarakhand for tokenism, if they want to bring UCC, it should have been brought by the central government,” Rawat said.


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