In a major breakthrough, the Assam Assembly on Wednesday, May 27, passed the UCC Bill, which aims to put in place a common legal framework for governing marriage, divorce, succession and live-in relationships irrespective of religion. The Opposition had demanded that the Bill be sent to a select committee.
With the passage of the proposed legislation, Assam has now emerged as the third state, after Uttarakhand and Gujarat, to pass a Uniform Civil Code Bill. Notably, Goa also has one common civil law that continues from its erstwhile Portuguese colonial period, PTI reported.
In a series of posts on social media platform X, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma termed it as a “watershed moment in Assam’s history”.
“A watershed moment in Assam’s history as we become the third Indian State to enact the UCC fulfilling the desire of the founding fathers of our nation,” he wrote.
Sarma further stated that this fulfils three important issues, including Article 44 of Constitution, BJP’s founding ideals as well as Assam BJP’s electoral promise.
A watershed moment in Assam’s history as we become the third Indian State to enact the UCC fulfilling the desire of the founding fathers of our nation.
It fulfils three important issues
✅Article 44 of Constitution
✅ @BJP4India‘s Founding Ideals
✅ @BJP4Assam electoral promise pic.twitter.com/GvCzAW5qVD— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) May 27, 2026
In the state Assembly, a day-long discussion was held on on the ‘The Uniform Civil Code, Assam, 2026 Bill’. Later on, Speaker Ranjeet Kumar Dass asked Sarma to move it for passage. Also, Dass rejected the Opposition side’s demand for Bill to be sent to a select committee for wider consultation. This prompted several Opposition MLAs to move to the Well of the House and keep on shouting till the Bill was passed.
“The #UCCAssam is a secular law which overrides personal laws & will ensure national integration by removing disparate loyalties to law which have contracting ideologies. It doesn’t interfere with the religious practices of any community or traditional practices of our indigenous,” Sarma said.
He further highlighted that it excludes “Assam’s Janjatiya community under Article 342 of the Constitution.”
“The communities practice self regulation and occurrence of social evils is rarely recorded- we realise these facts and regard their customs & hence have kept them out of #UCCAssam,” he wrote.
The Code is aimed at catering major societal issues like regulating marriage registration, make divorce only applicable through a court of law, giving equal inheritance rights to sons and daughters, making registration of live-in relationships mandatory and fix minimum age of marriage, Sarma said on X.
He even termed it as the “most secular, uniform and progressive law which will especially benefit Assam’s #NariShakti by protecting them from polygamy and Love Jihad, making these punishable offences and also ensuring women have full rights in case of inheritance, divorce and desertion.”
After the passage of the UCC Assam Bill, Sarma noted that every person from every religion across any region of Assam (except 6th schedule areas), “will be equal before the law in terms of these civil matters.”
“I thank all NDA legislators for wholeheartedly supporting this crucial Bill,” he added.
In the state Assembly, the Speaker had put the Bill for voice voting, amid continuous slogans of ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ and ‘Jai Shree Ram’ by the ruling bench.
“I declare that the Bill is passed,” he announced as the ruling members voted in favour of it.