The document discusses controversies surrounding the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in India. It notes that the codification of personal laws has historically generated opposition. Supporters of the UCC argue that it will end discrimination, while detractors contend that it will violate religious freedom and diversity. Implementing a uniform code is difficult due to different religions having different faith-based practices and customs around marriage, divorce, and succession. There is also a misconception among religious minorities that the UCC will force them to abandon their own practices.
The document discusses controversies surrounding the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in India. It notes that the codification of personal laws has historically generated opposition. Supporters of the UCC argue that it will end discrimination, while detractors contend that it will violate religious freedom and diversity. Implementing a uniform code is difficult due to different religions having different faith-based practices and customs around marriage, divorce, and succession. There is also a misconception among religious minorities that the UCC will force them to abandon their own practices.
The document discusses controversies surrounding the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in India. It notes that the codification of personal laws has historically generated opposition. Supporters of the UCC argue that it will end discrimination, while detractors contend that it will violate religious freedom and diversity. Implementing a uniform code is difficult due to different religions having different faith-based practices and customs around marriage, divorce, and succession. There is also a misconception among religious minorities that the UCC will force them to abandon their own practices.
The codification of personal laws has historically generated protests. The Hindu Code Bill, one of the foremost pieces of social legislation, had triggered enormous opposition. The debate on the UCC is centred on the argument to replace individual personal customs and practices of marriage, divorce, adoption and successions with a common code. Those in favour of one code argue that it will end discrimination in religions. Detractors contend that it will rob the nation of its religious diversity and violate the fundamental right to practise religion enshrined in Article 25 of the Constitution. In fact, they hold that a state action to introduce the UCC is against the quintessence of democracy. The secular state is, after all, an enabler of rights rather than an inhibitor in sensitive matters of religion and personal laws. Different religions having different religious faiths which are based on the basic practices of the religion causes difficulty in implementing a basic platform of practices for every religion, By attempting to implement this policy, the parliament is only duplicating the western model of law, The misconception of minorities that UCC will destroy their religious practices and they will be complied to follow the religious practice of majorities, i.e. Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists, Jain, and Zoroastrians, The conflict of freedom of religion with equality before law and right to equality, The most significant issue is the unawareness of people regarding the objects of UCC, and the reason for such unawareness is the lack of education, fake news, irrational religious beliefs, etc.