DMK strongly opposes UCC, writes to Law Commission
The ruling DMK on Wednesday registered its strong objection with the Law Commission of India to the proposed enactment of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) by the union government on the premise that it was an “antithesis to the right of freedom of practising and propagating one’s religion under Article 25 and rights given to minorities under Article 29 of the Constitution of India.
In his letter addressed to the chairman and members of the 22nd Law Commission of India, DMK general secretary cum Tamil Nadu irrigation minister Duraimurugan said, “The UCC has widespread ramifications on the rights of citizens of all denominations and has potentially disastrous effect on the secular ethos, law and order, peace and tranquillity in the state and intrusion into the legislative powers conferred under the Constitution to states”
“The DMK party strongly opposes the imposition of any UCC by the union government that wipes away the personal laws of each religion in personal matters like religion, adoption and succession, ” Duraimurugan informed the Law Commission, adding that such a UCC was an antithesis to the antithesis to the right of freedom of practising and propagating one’s religion under Article 25 and rights given to minorities under Article 29 of the Constitution of India.