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Uttarakhand UCC Law: Dravidianist Journo And All-In-All Commentator Sumanth Peddle Half-Baked Info, While Dravidianists Simp Over Wide Prevalence Of Cousin Marriage In TN

February 8, 2024
The Commune

Following the passage of the UCC Bill in the Uttarakhand Assembly, pro-Congress journalists and Dravidianists went into hyperbole with their reactions. 

Journalist Arvind Gunasekar shared a picture of Schedule I of the UCC which lists prohibited relationships. He wrote, “Under Uniform Civil Code ‘Aunt / Uncle’s Daughter’ cannot be married. Recorded as a restricted bond.” This was seen as an attempt to gaslight Hindus and his post sounded as if this was valid for the entire country. 

Netizens slammed Arvind for his half-baked post and schooled him on the fact that most of the relationships listed in the image he shared were already a part of the Hindu Marriage Act and that this was restricted to Uttarakhand.

“Neutral” political commentator Sumanth C Raman also jumped onto the bandwagon to peddle fake news. In a post on Uttarakhand being the first state in the country to implement UCC, he wrote, “Goa has had a UCC for decades but never mind facts.” forgetting the most important fact that Goa got the UCC under Portuguese rule.

Netizens promptly schooled him on the topic reminding him that it was under the Portuguese rule that UCC was implemented in Goa.

 

The Dravidianists went to another extreme and shared infographics of cousin marriage in South Asia. 

Whether this was shared to send a message of “resistance” to the central government or is a message of approving incest, is not clear. 

 

In response to the Dravidianists, some netizens pointed out a few relations that were assumed to be common.

 

Some questioned if the Dravidians were competing with Pakistan in the cousin marriage category.

 

 

Some netizens called out the duplicity of Dravidianists who are very vocal about inter-caste marriages especially targeting Brahmin women.

Several others pointed out the health implications of consanguineous marriages. 

 

Others pointed out that it is not right to flex, of all things, for incest.

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