The Challenges Before BJP, Opposition On Uniform Civil Code
NDTV
The tribes of India constitute a numerically small minority, just about 9 per cent of the total population. But their expanse is vast, and so is the diversity of their customs.
Over 11 crore people and around 700 different tribes - it is the diversity among the ST groups, particularly when it comes to customs and traditions revolving marriage, age of marriage, registration, dissolution and inheritance that could be the biggest challenge for the BJP-led centre when it decides on the Uniform Civil Code.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's endorsement of the UCC last week has ignited a discussion in political and legal circles. The Law Commission has said that it has already received around 19 lakh suggestions in the past two weeks and the exercise of collecting feedback will go on till July 13. But while there is an agreement that while the opposition is struggling to present a strong, unified resistance and rejection of the idea, the BJP too will not find it easy to formulate a UCC roping in all sensibilities of communities across the country.
Challenges before the BJP
The biggest challenge for the BJP when it comes to drafting the Common Civil Code, a uniform set of laws for marriage, adoption, inheritance and divorce, comes from tribals and the northeast region.
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