The Rising People’s Party (RPP) on Monday stated its opposition of the uniform civil code (UCC) which the Bhartiya Janta Party is seeking to implement across the country. Stating that UCC is part of the ‘One nation, One religion, One language’ narrative of the RSS, it urged the NDPP-BJP government in the state to speak up for Nagaland.
“RPP demands that the ‘people’s mandated’ NDPP-BJP coalition government should rise to the occasion and speak up for Nagaland,” the party said in a press release.
A uniform civil code means having a common law for all citizens of the country that is not based on religion. Personal laws and laws related to inheritance, adoption and succession are likely to be covered by a common code.
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The Rising People’s Party cited how the NDPP-BJP coalition had maintained “pin-drop silence” when in 2022, the BJP government pushed to impose Hindi as the National language of India; against the backdrop of beef ban controversy and how it banned sale of dog meat in the state “at the behest of Hindutva elements in the central government.”
But with the UCC, silence will have “disastrous consequences because if UCC is imposed in the state by overruling Article 371A”, RPP stated, while affirming that “neither the people nor the RPP will remain silent.”
“The imposition of UCC will be a call for insurrection in the state,” the party said.
RPP demanded that a special session of Nagaland Legislative Assembly be convened and a resolution opposing the UCC is passed in totality.
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