BREAKING | Assam To Introduce Uniform Civil Code On May 26: CM Himanta Sarma's Decision On Day 1

Added: 2026-05-14

[00:00:00]All right, here's breaking news coming in. A big decision taken by Assam's Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on day one. Now, he's talked about implementing a uniform civil code. In fact, now we're given to understand that this is a big decision taken on the UCC being implemented while tribal, including both hill and plain areas, will be exempted from the UCC implementation in Assam.

[00:00:23]Now, this will be introduced on May 26th in the Assam Legislative Assembly. And this is the big decision taken by Assam's Chief Minister, the newly elected Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who's now on his second consecutive term in Assam. He's taken a big decision on uniform civil code. The bill will be introduced in the assembly on May 26th. Now, the crucial point is that tribal areas, including both hill and plain areas, will be exempted from the implementation of UCC.

[00:01:00]All right, in fact, more crucial points are now emerging as we continue to report on these developments. Now, religious practices and rituals will be kept outside the ambit of UCC in Assam when we talk about its implementation.

[00:01:13]While tribal areas, including both hill and plain areas, will also be exempted.

[00:01:19]Now, the bill will be introduced in the assembly of Assam on May 26th. Now, this is a crucial and a big decision taken by Assam's Chief Minister. Now, this was what we BJP also promised in its Assam manifesto. And now, the Chief Minister has got to action on day one. In fact, he talks about the implementation of a UCC. The bill will now be introduced in the assembly on May 26th. Two big takeaways. First is that tribal areas, including both hill and plain areas, will be exempted from the implementation of UCC while the rituals, while the religious practices and rituals will also be kept outside the ambit of UCC. Now, that's the big decision taken by Assam's Chief Minister. My colleague Amrita also joins me with more details on this. Amrita, take us through this a big decision taken by Assam's Chief Minister on the implementation of UCC.

[00:02:17]That's right, Ishita. This is the first action taken by Assam's Chief Minister in his second term, Himanta Biswa Sarma, as his manifesto promise to include the UCC, to enforce the UCC. And he is he has in fact introduced the UCC in the Assam Assembly as his first line of action. And we know that he was a very strong against many of the illegal infiltration during his campaigning. He was also very stringent on the demographic changes. Uh speaking exclusively to Republic, he also mentioned that and he was it was one of his major election campaign focus as well. And now with the UCC set to be introduced in the Assam Assembly, and he also has the numbers for it securing a clearly above the two-third majority.

[00:03:04]And he does have the number and now he is set to in fact introduce the UCC. And as he also mentioned, there are some restrictions and exceptions with this regard. We are getting getting reports that tribals will be exempted from the Uniform Civil Code in Assam. And also other religious practices and rituals rituals will be kept outside of the UCC. So, as you know, UCC will be will be enforced mostly with the alimony, with the marriage codes and some of the other civil proceedings and codes that will be now be in one common uniform code in Assam as of now. Remains to be seen how it will be unfolded.

[00:03:44]Although he has put in place some exceptions for the tribals and other religious rituals as of now, Ishita.

[00:03:51]All right, Amrita. Thanks so much for joining us and giving us all the details about Assam and Chief Minister's big decision on day one regarding the implementation of UCC. And now more breaking developments coming in.

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