DIMAPUR, JULY 1 (MExN): The Chakhesang Public Organization (CPO) on Saturday said it will oppose the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in letter and in spirit and sounded caution that there will be social unrest if the law is enacted.
In a representation addressed to the Law Commission of India, the CPO reminded that the founders of the nation and particularly the framers of the Constitution of India while understanding and acknowledging the diverse historical, traditional and cultural realities, ensured the recognition of every diverse segment and the protection of their religion, language, customary law and their social practices and had it enshrined in Art 25 of the Constitution of India.
It maintained that the integrity of India, in its 76 year of Independence, was never threatened by accommodation of the diversities in the Constitution adding that as long as the religious and ethnic minorities feel secured by the constitutional protections, the national integrity remains firm. However, the moment the security of the minor communities is jeopardized; there will be social and political unrest in the country, it stated.
With the process of implementing the controversial UCC underway by the BJP led government in the centre, the CPO alleged the ‘majoritarianism bullies’ of marginalizing the minorities in the name of strengthening the unity of the nation.
The CPO stated that at this “rate of intolerance of the religious majority against the religious minority and when such superiority complex is to be legalized in the camouflage of UCC, and under the strength of such law, if UCC is imposed on the minorities, we will be compelled to react.” It said the consequence would be social unrest.
Pointing out that the Chakhesang tribe is a major tribe in Nagaland having own distinct language, religion, culture, traditional and customary practices despite being converted into Christianity some 128 years ago, it asserted that the traditional and customary practices of inheritance, adoption and succession remain sacrosanct and those practices do not conflict with any of the modern adjudication laws in view of religious or social practices of the Nagas being enshrined in Art 371(A) (a) (i) (ii)& (iii).
