NEW DELHI: The Assam Meeting on Tuesday handed “The Assam Prohibition of Polygamy Invoice, 2025,” aiming to ban polygamous marriages throughout the state and impose strict penalties on those that enter into or conceal a second marriage whereas the primary continues to be legitimate.The regulation, launched by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on the primary day of the winter session, will apply statewide besides in Sixth Schedule areas and to members of Scheduled Tribes as outlined beneath the Structure. Talking earlier than the state meeting authorised the invoice, Sarma mentioned the laws, which bans polygamous marriages throughout most of Assam, just isn’t in opposition to Islam.“Islam cannot promote polygamy. If this invoice passes, then you’re going to get an opportunity to be a real Muslim. This invoice just isn’t in opposition to Islam. The true Islamic individuals will welcome this Act. International locations like Turkey have additionally banned Polygamy; there’s an arbitration council in Pakistan…” Sarma mentioned, as cited by ANI.Sarma has additionally pledged to implement the Uniform Civil Code in Assam if he’s re-elected in subsequent yr’s meeting polls.“If I return to the meeting because the Chief Minister, I’ll carry the UCC within the first session of the meeting. I provide you with my dedication that I’ll carry the UCC to Assam,” Sarma added.The invoice was launched amid the absence of opposition MLAs from Congress, CPI(M), and Raijor Dal, who staged a walkout following a dialogue on the demise of singer Zubeen Garg. “No individual shall marry, if, he has a dwelling partner or he isn’t legally separated from the opposite partner following due process of regulation, after marriage, or he is a celebration to a wedding which isn’t but dissolved or annulled by a decree of divorce and both has proper to attraction or the desired time for attraction has not been expired or is in attraction, or the attraction has been introduced however has not but been dismissed,” the invoice mentions, as cited by ANI. “Whoever abets any offences punishable beneath this Act or makes an attempt to commit any such offence shall be punishable with the punishment as offered beneath the Act for the offence of polygamy. Whoever, in the course of the lifetime of his or her partner or throughout subsistence of a sound marriage or with out having been lawfully divorced from the partner, or with out having been declared the wedding null and void or dissolved, contracts a wedding contravening any of the provisions contained within the Act beneath Part 4 shall be responsible of an offence punishable with imprisonment upto 7 years and a nice,” the invoice provides.