India, April 30 -- India needs the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), said Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, whose state is the first in the country to implement a UCC legislation - a common set of laws that will subsume customary laws across faiths and govern issues such as marriage, divorce, inheritance and maintenance. UCC, part of the troika of core ideological goals of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was among the party's poll promises in the 2022 assembly elections. In an interview with HT, Dhami also expressed confidence over the BJP's victory in the hill state, where polling concluded on all five Lok Sabha seats in the first phase of general elections on April 19. Edited excerpts: :...