‘No Muslim Woman Wants Her Husband To Have Three Wives’: Assam CM For Uniform Civil Code Implementation

“No Muslim woman wants her husband to have three wives. No one wants this,” PTI quoted Sarma as saying.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma | File Image

New Delhi: Strongly pitching for the implementation of a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in India, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has said all Muslims whom he has met wanted the code.

Sarma said no Muslim woman wants her husband to have three wives.

“No Muslim woman wants her husband to have three (more) wives. No one wants this,” news agency PTI quoted him as saying.

“You can ask any Muslim woman. No one would tell you that her husband should marry three women. Who wants this?” Sarma asked while interacting with media personnel in the national capital on Saturday.

The Assam chief minister said that a Muslim man marrying more than one woman was not his problem but of the mothers and sisters of the community.

After the triple talaq law, Sarma said, it's time for the Uniform Civil Code has to be put in place, if the Muslim women and mothers are to be given honour in the society.

“I am a Hindu and I have the UCC. For my sister and daughter, I have the UCC. If I have UCC for my daughter, then Muslim daughters must have that protection,” he said.

Earlier in the day, the Assam Chief Minister met his Uttarakhand counterpart Pushkar Singh Dhami in the national capital.

Dhami had recently said that his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government would prepare the draft of a Uniform Civil Code to be implemented in Uttarakhand.

“The (state) cabinet has unanimously approved the proposal. We also expect other states to follow us,” said Dhami, who took charge as the Chief Minister of the hill state for the second time, earlier on March 24.

Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya had earlier last month said the state government is thinking seriously in the direction of implementation of the Uniform Civil Code.

“One law for all in one country is the need of the hour. It is required that we should get out of the system of one law for one person and another for others. We are in favour of a common civil code,” he said earlier on April 23.

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jairam Thakur too had said that his government is open to implementing the Uniform Civil Code in the state.

Earlier on April 25, Thakur said that his government would examine the Uniform Civil Code before taking a final decision on its implementation.