UCC demands compromise

Consensus rather than majoritarian muscle-flexing needed

In principle, the concept of a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in a country that is constitutionally secular and vividly multicultural cannot be faulted. In its barest definition, secularism implies that the country has no state religion. But the UCC, which has been simmering in the public discourse since independence, is enshrined in the Directive Principles of State Policy of the Constitution and endorsed by various pronouncements by the Supreme Court. It is generating fierce public debate and opposition again. The spark for this is the 22nd Law Commission’s public notice of June 14, soliciting for over one month public comment