DIMAPUR, JUNE 29 (MExN): Joining in the opposition bandwagon, the Angami Public Organization (APO) has also voice against the move of the Government of India to implement Uniform Civil Code (UCC).
In a representation addressed to the Law Commission of India, APO has appealed that in the event UCC is introduced, Nagaland state be kept outside its purview as it shall result in direct confrontation and undermine the Naga customary law and practices which was recognized and protected under Article 371(A) of the Constitution of India.
The APO also stated that if the present leadership in power at the centre go ahead to impose their conception of uniting the country under one legal roof, it will backfire and disintegrate the big country knitting together with diverse culture, custom, language and religion.
“The ideology of the present dispensation of one nation, one language and one law etc. will surely backlash with serious consequences. The implementation of UCC in the case of Nagaland state will result in direct infringement of Article 371 (A) of the Constitution of India which will have serious ramification,” it pointed out.
Maintaining that a common law to cover diverse culture, custom, religion, a common law to govern personal, inheritance, adoption and succession etc. is not relevant and contrary to Prime Minster, Narendra Modi statement asking "how can a country function with dual laws?,” the APO deemed that the pertinent question of "how can a country function under one common law?" in the midst of multi-ethnicity should rather be the big question.
Underlining this, the APO espoused strong conviction that the members of the penal of law commission will do justice by avoiding anything that is harmful to the secular fabric of the nation.
