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Mumbai: The people of Goa have as a whole accepted a version of the Uniform Civil Code that the state has had for over a century, Goa Governor P.S. Sreedharan Pillai said Monday, at a time when the Narendra Modi-led Union government has been pushing for such a code across the country...
Under the Goa Civil Code, all communities, including Hindus, Muslims and Christians, are governed by the same laws for marriage, divorce and succession, among other things...
In an interview with ThePrint, Governor Pillai, who has authored 237 books on various subjects, said he has studied the uniform civil code in Goa in detail and written a book on the subject, which he plans to publish after his tenure as governor ends...
Governor Pillai, however, said the phenomenon is no different from what happened in cities such as Mumbai and that a Goa for Goans only slogan will find no support in the state...
But, I am sure that Goan people are patriotic people, they will never wholeheartedly support this, he said.. Governor Pillais next project is to publish an updated version of his book,Dark Days of Democracy,which details the Emergency era..
