Is Bengal’s six-month UCC deadline about more than Uniform Civil law?

West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has set a six-month deadline for implementing the Uniform Civil Code, with anti-conversion and land laws to follow. The announcement puts Bengal at the centre of India’s decade-long UCC debate — and raises fresh questions over what the proposed code will change..

05 Oct 2026

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Is Bengal’s six-month UCC deadline about more than Uniform Civil law?

West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari’s promise to implement a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) within six months has placed a decades-old constitutional question at the centre of the state’s new political agenda. Speaking at a Vishwa Hindu Parishad event in Kolkata on October 4, Adhikari said Bengal would follow Uttarakhand and Gujarat, and that his government would subsequently bring stringent laws against what he called love jihad, land jihad and religious conversion. The announcement comes aft...

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