A group of more than a dozen Adivasi organisations in Jharkhand, led by the Adivasi Samanvay Samiti, on July 5 sent a memorandum to the Governor of the State, asking that he exercise his office’s special powers under the Fifth Schedule to exempt tribals of Jharkhand from any form of a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) that might be brought in by the Union government.
A few hundred Adivasi people from villages in and around Ranchi district gathered for a demonstration outside the Raj Bhawan in the State Capital on Wednesday afternoon before proceeding to submit their memorandum to Governor C. P. Radhakrishnan.
This comes a day after Mr. Radhakrishnan told The Hindu in an interview that as the Governor of a State like Jharkhand which is home to one of the largest tribal populations of the country, “I will take it up with the Centre when any specific draft comes through.”
