Uttarakhand is the first state to introduce Equal Citizens Bill in the Legislative Assembly of this

Including Equal Citizens: Uttarakhand is the first state to introduce Equal Citizens Bill in the Legislative Assembly of this state.

 The Uniform Civil Code Bill, which has been in discussion for a long time, was recently introduced in the Uttarakhand Assembly, after its passage, Uttarakhand has become the first state in the country to adopt this Uniform Civil Code Bill because after this the Civil Code will be implemented. Now this can be implemented in other BJP ruled states and then in the Center also.

 Opposition to Uniform Civil Code.

 There has been a lot of debate regarding this bill since the beginning, but this time the opposition has not opposed it, rather different types of questions are being raised and there are some Muslim leaders and political parties associated with them who are definitely raising strong objections to it.

 What is Uniform Civil Code?

 In most of the countries two types of laws exist such as criminal law and civil law in which

 In criminal law, criminal cases like theft, robbery, assault, dacoity, murder are heard, in which provision for the same type of court, process and punishment has been made for all religions or communities.

 This new civil law is different in many ways, including matters related to marriage, marriage and property.

 This is how the draft of UCC was prepared.

 Draft in 4 volumes containing 749 pages.

 More than 70 public meetings were held.

 Took 2.33 lakh written feedback online.

 The draft has been made after talking to 60,000 people.

 Personal law ended.

 With this bill, laws related to different religions or communities will be abolished, like at present there is Muslim personal law, whatever division is done is done according to Muslim personal law and when marriage takes place among Hindus, it is done under Hindu Marriage Act. And similarly, there are different types of personal laws for Christians and Sikhs also.