A lot has been said about the Uniform Civil Code ever since the Prime Minister raised the issue while addressing a rally in the bean- bound state of Madhya Pradesh. Livery Civil law is part of the Directive Principles of State Policy under Article 44 of the Indian constitution. Composition 44 binds the state to make endeavours for the eventual perpetration of a Uniform Civil Code in India. But the bare citation of the word sends the world of politics into a huff. There’s fearmongering, misinformation, and political deformation. Some political parties went to the extent of saying that Hindu law would now be applied to Muslims. Nothing can be further from the verity.
Diversity and freedom to exercise one’s religion are cited as the crucial grounds against the idea of a Uniform Civil Code. Both these angles of India’s republic are defended astronomically under abecedarian rights that make the idea of a UCC tricky to apply but aren’t the ultimate roadblocks to it.
1. Livery Civil law isn’t about how you supplicate, eat, or dress numerous politicians will have you believe else. But Uniform Civil Code won’t infringe on the right of any community or individualities as to how they supplicate, eat, or dress. These matters are guarded under the right to sequestration by the pronouncement of the Supreme Court under a constitution bench judgement. No law or law can define a dress law for individualities in public life, or what one chooses to eat or the religion any citizen chooses to follow. The Uniform Civil Code isn’t about any of these angles. The common civil law won’t touch upon any of these aspects.
2. Livery Civil law will negatively affect artistic diversity is a myth India is extensively different in languages, food, customs, carnivals, clothes, and much further. Livery Civil law won’t affect the festivity or observance of any carnivals. It’ll not negatively affect any food tradition or the vast breadth of artistic diversity in India. Languages, food, clothes, original carnivals, and customary fests aren’t regulated in any manner or form by the Uniform Civil Code. Cultural diversity is an aspect of religious diversity in India. But divergent artistic practices are seen in the same religion, for illustration, Hindu practices and customs in Gujarat are polar contrary to Bengali beliefs and customs. Diversity has survived in the Hindu religion despite rationalisation of particular laws and their codification.
3. There’s no Hindu law that can be assessed on any community There’s no law of Manusmriti, Mitakshara, or Dayabhaga that can be assessed on any community or existent. The Hindu Personal Law has been the subject of colorful reforms and emendations. Indeed the heritage laws for Hindus have been caught to give women a fair share in ancestral property. No angles of the Hindu Code Bill can be applied to Muslims or any other community. The Indian constitution guards against any similar duty. The Hindu Marriage Act is applicable only to Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, and Jains. It can not be extended to any other community. Any individual or group sermonizing that the Uniform Civil Code shall apply the law of the maturity on the nonage communities is spreading misinformation and lies.