Poll-bound Uttarakhand's Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami's announcement on Saturday that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), if voted back to power, will form a committee to prepare a draft of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the State, raises questions over whether an individual State can bring its own family law code and the ripples the move may create in a pluralist society with personal laws based on the customs of religious communities.
