Mr Gupta, Will the Unform Civil code also dictate how hindus and muslims should marry in an Unform way. May be you want them to marry in front of the Judges who as you know follow some laws made by normal persons who have nothing to do with religion. Allowing everybody to follow their relation with the law only assisting them on the grounds of humanity, so long as it does not interfere/contradict with the respective religious law is required.
Are you ready, or is anybody else ready to follow the muslim law or the christian law for a Hindu to follow if it is leaglised as a National Uniform Law.
Nation is a different entity and religion should be used to co-ordinate and build it in conjunction with it, not to use it to co-ordinate and merge religions !.
Rediff, please do not allow such short sighted persons to write articles in your site, or you will lose credibility of all the non-alligned, coperative, secular and intelligent indians.
RE:Secularism
by sundeep grover on May 10, 2005 10:10 PM Permalink
precisely!concentrate on IT and technology and dont follow outdated laws. behave as a citizen of India and follow universal modern human rights and not some old outdated law systems. in this age of IT and technology, accept that nothing is divine or above the law.man made laws for the mankind which are open to reappriasal and criticism are what we need.I hope you agree.
RE:Secularism
by Krishna on May 11, 2005 12:16 AM Permalink
Dear a2k, you have not understood the meaning of Uniform Civil Code. It means that we will have a set of laws that will be applied uniformly to all citizens of India. The legal entitlement of "marriage" comes under the purview of law but how a marriage "ceremony" is performed is NOT under the purview of law. In other words, you can have the ceremony of your choice be it Shia Muslim, Sunni Muslim, Punjabi, Tamil, what ever you choose. However you can only get married to one woman at a time. USA has uniform civil code and even muslims in USA cannot have more than one wife. Thats a great system. The fundamental question is, do you have to have 4 wives to become a muslim? The answer is no! Does it make you a better muslim to divorce your wife and NOT pay alimony. The answer is no! Infact, lot of these things have nothing to do with God. The whole thing about muslim personal law is to prevent muslims from integrating with the mainstream and thereby destabilise India. I strongly believe that implementing uniform civil code will unite India and make it more peaceful and allow people to practice their faith peacefully and without confrontation. Sadly, not everyone wants peace and equality.
