A Uniform Civil Law Code

It has always been said that India is a nation with unity in diversity. A nation which defies believing that any one religion is all potent and vital, a nation under whose aegis, a Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Christian all are equal.

But still there is one thing absent in the nation which restrains in from being the paramount exemplary of being a nation equipped with equality for all, the things which continues to haunt our desired prospects of equality is the absence of a civil union code from the nation’s law files.

Equality can never be attained until each and every person of the nation feels that he is at par with all other. Even if one person is slave, the whole nation is a slave because nation is itself composed of various people. Therefore even if one person of the nation feels that he is being treated unequally and not up to the desired standards, then surely there is something wrong in the nation which is halting it from attaining the desired standards of equality. In India’s case this is the unavailability of a “Uniform Civil Code” for the whole nation.

Today on one side our nation boasts of an equal society with great foundation and respect but on the other hand, we are made to observe some citizens being dealt with more care and precision. Take for example the appeasement policy which has been in use for more than four or five decades. Political parties try to win in India not the basis of their merits, not on the basis of the qualities and strength of their leaders but merely by developing vote banks by trying to appease various section of the society. The governments at the center in order to book their place in the Lok Sabha for the next terms appeased Muslims by making several laws for them which were in coordination with their religion’s laws. The government even made changes to the constitution and made provisions for laws relating to marriage of Muslims according to their own laws thereby executing the Muslim Shariat law. Still the Muslim Personal Law Application Act. 1937 providing for application of Islamic law code of shariat to Muslims in India in their personal affairs and something that is dramatically grave in this matter is that All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) which is the body executing laws on personal affairs of the Indian Muslims is an antagonist of the Right of Children for free and compulsory education act, 2009 and also defies considering any changes in the divorce procedure in Muslim marriages. This act even blatantly supports child marriages and is a detractor of Child Marriage Restraint Act.

Despite of vehemently denying to follow the beliefs of Indian judicial system, this body still continues to function and even with huge government funds and allowances.

Is thing providing the people of the nation with equality? Where no one is in fact equal in front of the law. Isn't this ridiculous that despite of boasting of being world’s greatest democracy and having humongous diversity in anything the denizens of the nation are not equal?

Through my this article I am neither criticizing anyone nor blaming anyone, I am just asking for equality for all which can only be established through a uniform civil law code which will “truly” make everybody equal in front of law.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI