DEHRADUN: A day after his closed-door meeting with home minister Amit Shah, reportedly on implementating Uniform Civil Code in Uttarakhand, state CM Pushkar Singh Dhami met PM Modi on Tuesday.
"The PM is already aware of all details (about UCC in Uttarakhand)," Dhami said.Dhami meets Modi, evasive on UCC discussion, says, 'PM already aware of it'A day after his closed-door meeting with home minister Amit Shah, which was reportedly about the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in Uttarakhand and where Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai (retired), who heads the state's five-member UCC panel, was also present, Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami met PM Narendra Modi on Tuesday.While Dhami invited Modi to the international investors summit to be held in Dehradun in December this year, sources said Tuesday's meeting was also about UCC.
Asked about it, however, Dhami evaded a direct answer.
"The PM is already aware of all the details (about UCC in Uttarakhand).
It is his vision to have UCC in the country," he said.Dhami added that the state government is yet to receive the draft of the proposed civil code and the report prepared by the five-member panel, which was announced by the state government to have been completed last week.Speaking about the implementation of UCC in Uttarakhand, Dhami said, "We will bring it soon, without any inordinate delay.
However, we will get it legally verified and not do anything in a hurry so as to ensure there are no shortcomings." The meeting comes days after Modi, at an event in Bhopal, batted for implementation of UCC in the country, stressing that "the country cannot be run on two laws".Sources in the know said that Uttarakhand's UCC draft, which is expected to be submitted by the expert panel any day now, is likely to become the template for the centre's UCC.
The draft, sources say, has strong recommendations on registering live-in relationships and raising the marriageable age of women, making it uniform across faiths.When asked if tribal groups would be exempted from UCC, Dhami said the panel had reached out to different tribal groups in the state on this and there would be deliberations.UCC will bind Bharat more effectively, says DhankharV ice President Jagdeep Dhankhar said on Tuesday that any further delay in UCC implementation will be corrosive of our values.
The underlying sublimity has to be appreciated and understood.
This will bind Bharat, its nationalism more effectively...
this was the thought process of founding fathers of the Constitution, he said.
The VP also underlined that political stakeholding must not be done at the cost of the nation or nationalism, and that there must be a common denominator (that) it has to be within the realm of respect for our nation and nationalism.