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The Bharatiya Janata Party-led Assam government on Friday (February 23) approved the repeal of the Assam Muslim Marriages and Divorces Registration Act, 1935, in what an Assam minister termed as a significant step forward towards implementing the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the state. While Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma claimed that the decision would help the government prevent child marriages in the state, his cabinet minister Jayanta Malla Baruah laid out a larger motivation behind the move, which is to implement the UCC in Assam. Baruah also said that the existing law is a “colonial Act”.Baruah said, “A very important decision has been taken in line with that. The Assam Muslim Marriage & Divorce Registration Act, 1935, will be repealed and no Muslim marriage or divorce will be registered under the Act. We want all such matters to be under the Special Marriage Act.”