Indian Union Muslim League

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Indian Union Muslim League
AbbreviationI. U. M. L.
President K. M. Kader Mohideen
Chairperson Sayyid Sadiq Ali Shihab Thangal
Secretary P. K. Kunhalikutty
Lok Sabha  Leader E. T. Muhammed Basheer
Rajya Sabha  Leader P. V. Abdul Wahab
Founder M. Muhammad Ismail
Founded
  • 10 March 1948 (1948-03-10) (First Council)
  • 1 September 1951 (1951-09-01) (Constitution)
Preceded by AIML
HeadquartersQuaid-e-Millath Manzil, No. 36, Maraikayar Lebbai Street, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. [1]
Student wing Muslim Students Federation (M. S. F.)
Youth wing Muslim Youth League (the Youth League)
Women's wing Muslim Women's League
Labour wing Swatantra Thozhilali Union (S. T. U.)
Peasant's wingSwathanthra Karshaka Sangam (Kerala)
Ideology Communitarianism [2]
Conservatism [3]
Political position Centre-right [4]
Alliance UDF (Kerala)
SPA (Tamil Nadu)
INDIA (national level)
Seats in  Lok Sabha
3 / 543
Seats in  Rajya Sabha
1 / 245
Seats in  Kerala Legislative Assembly
15 / 140
Election symbol
Indian Election Symbol Lader.svg
Party flag
Flag of the Indian Union Muslim League.svg
Website
iumlkerala.org

Indian Union Muslim League (abbreviated as the IUML or Muslim League) is a political party primarily based in Kerala. It is recognised as a State Party in Kerala by the Election Commission of India. [5]

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After the Partition of India, the first Council of the Indian segment of the All-India Muslim League was held on 10 March 1948 at the south Indian city of Madras (now Chennai). [6] The party renamed itself as the 'Indian Union Muslim League' and adopted a new constitution on 1 September 1951. [6]

IUML is a major member of the opposition United Democratic Front, the INC-led pre-poll state level alliance in Kerala. [7] [8] Whenever the United Democratic Front rules in Kerala, the party leaders are chosen as important Cabinet Ministers. The party has always had a constant, albeit small, presence in the Indian Parliament. [7] The party is a part of the INDIA in national level. [7] The League first gained a ministry (Minister of State for External Affairs) in Indian Government in 2004. [9]

The party currently has four members in Parliament - E. T. Mohammed Basheer, M. P. Abdussamad Samadani and Kani K. Navas in the Lok Sabha and P. V. Abdul Wahab in the Rajya Sabha - and fifteen members in Kerala State Legislative Assembly.

History

Muhammad Ismail Sahib on a 1996 stamp of India Muhammad Ismail 1996 stamp of India.jpg
Muhammad Ismail Sahib on a 1996 stamp of India
A postage stamp released in commemoration of Mohammed Ali Shihab Thangal (1936-2009). Panakkad Shihab Thangal 2010 stamp of India.jpg
A postage stamp released in commemoration of Mohammed Ali Shihab Thangal (1936-2009).

After the partition of India in 1947, the All-India Muslim League was virtually disbanded. It was succeeded by the Indian segment of the Muslim League in the new Dominion of India (first session on 10 March 1948 and constitution passed on 1 September 1951). [10] M. Muhammad Ismail, the then President of the Madras unit of the Muslim League was chosen as the Convener of the Indian segment of the party. [6] The Travancore Muslim League (the States' Muslim League) was merged with the Malabar League in November, 1956. [6]

Indian Union Muslim League contests General Elections under the Indian Constitution. [10] The party is normally represented by two members in the Indian Lower House (the Lok Sabha). [10] B. Pocker, elected from Malappuram Constituency, was a member of the First Lower House (1952–57) from the Madras Muslim League. [10] The party currently has four members in Parliament.

Apart from Kerala and West Bengal, the League had Legislative Assembly members in Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, Maharastra, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, and Assam. [11] In West Bengal, the League had won Assembly seats in the 1970s, and A. K. A. Hassanussaman was a member of the Ajoy Mukherjee cabinet. [12]

Indian Union Muslim League first gained a ministry in Kerala Government as part of the Communist Party of India Marxist-led United Front in 1967. The party switched fronts in 1969 and formed an alliance with the Congress in 1976. [13] [8] It later became a chief constituent in a succession of Indian National Congress-led ministries. [8]

Early years

From the 1960s to the 80s

With the Congress Party

In the 1990s

From the 2000s

National President of Indian Union Muslim League

No.NamePortraitTenureHome State
1 M. Muhammed Ismail M. Muhammad Ismail (Postage Stamp, Government of India).jpg 10 March 1948 — 5 April 1972 Tamil Nadu
2 Bafaqy Thangal

BafakiTangal.jpg

1972 — 19 January 1973 Kerala
3 Ebrahim Sulaiman Sait Sulaimansait 1.jpg 1973—1994 Karnataka
4 G. M. Banatwala 1994— 25 June 2008 Maharashtra
5 E. Ahamed The portrait of the Minister of State for Railways, Shri E. Ahammed.jpg 25 June 2008 — 1 February 2017 Kerala
6 K. M. Kader Mohideen Prof. K. M. Kader Mohideen.jpg 27 February 2017 — present Tamil Nadu

Ideology

The [Indian Union Muslim League] party...has shown strands of identity politics, but largely remained communitarian; it has at times been conservative, but never communal. It has furthered Muslim aspirations without antagonising any other segment—and hence has retained its centrality in the larger Kerala polity.

Outlook [25]

The distinctive feature of the [Indian Union] Muslim League in Kerala is that it strove to keep the [Muslim] community at the centre of the [Kerala] state's politics, unlike other Muslim political formations elsewhere in India that revelled in confessional isolationism. As a result, the Kerala Muslims emerged as probably the only community of that faith in India that achieved genuine political empowerment on the one hand and, on the other, lived out the promise of equal citizenship enshrined in the [Indian] Constitution.

Outlook [26]

If organising a religious community politically on the basis of antagonism to another is communalism, the IUML has never mobilised its cadre nor used its political and often administrative clout to create religious divides. On the contrary, whenever the state faced a communally sensitive situation, the party rose to the occasion and played a stellar role in dousing the flames....By practicing a brand of politics that could be termed communitarian rather than communal, the IUML succeeded in actualising the constitutional guarantee of equal citizenship for the Muslims in the state.

Composition

DesignationName
Chairman- Political Advisory Committee (PAC) Sadiq Ali Thangal (Kerala)
National President K. M. Kader Mohideen (Tamil Nadu) [28]
Vice PresidentsIqbal Ahmed (Uttar Pradesh)
Dastagir Ibrahim Aga (Karnataka)
National General Secretary P. K. Kunhalikutty (Kerala) [29]
National Organising Secretary E. T. Mohammed Basheer (Kerala)
National Treasurer P. V. Abdul Wahab (Kerala) [30]
SecretariesKhorrum Anis Omer (Delhi)
M. P. Abdussamad Samadani (Kerala)
S. Naim Akthar (Bihar)
Siraj Ebrahim Sait (Karnataka)
Assistant SecretariesAbdul Basith (Tamil Nadu)
Kausar Hayat Khan (Uttar Pradesh)

Organizational structure

Kerala Legislative Assembly

Source: http://www.ceo.kerala.gov.in/electionhistory.html

Early years (1957 - 1979/80)

ElectionSeatsVote%Government/OppositionMinistersSources
Won (Contested)
19578 (19)

As independents

4.72Opposition (to Namboodiripad Ministry)

1957 - 59

[17] [33]
196011 (12)5.0 Increase2.svgGovernment (Pattom Ministry)

1960 - 62

  • Formally left the coalition in 1961 as an abstaining Opposition. [34]
Excluded from the Pattom Ministry [34] [34] [17] [35]
Abstaining Opposition (to Shankar Ministry) [34]

1962 - 64

[34]
19656 (16)3.71 Decrease2.svgInconclusive (no government formed) [34] [35] [17]
196714 (15)6.75 Increase2.svgGovernment [8] (Namboodiripad Ministry)

1967 - 69

[8] [35]
Government (Achutha Menon Ministry)

1969 - 70

[36]
197011 (20)7.7 Increase2.svgGovernment (Achutha Menon Ministry)

1970 - 77

[36] [37]
197713 (16)6.65 Decrease2.svgGovernment (Karunakaran Ministry)

1977

[36] [37]
Government (Antony Ministry)

1977 - 78

Government (PKV Ministry)

1978 - 79

Government (Koya Ministry)

1979

With the United Democratic Front (1979/80 - present)

ElectionSeatsVote %Government/Opposition [8] Ministers
Won (Contested)
198014 (21)7.18 Increase2.svgOpposition (to Nayanar Ministry)

1980 - 81

Government (Karunakaran Ministry)

1981 - 82

198214 (18)6.17 Decrease2.svgGovernment (Karunakaran Ministry)

1982 - 87

198715 (23)7.73 Increase2.svgOpposition

(to Nayanar Ministry)

1987 - 91

199119 (22)7.37 Decrease2.svgGovernment

(Karunakaran Ministry)

1991 - 95

Government

(Antony Ministry)

1995 - 96

199613 (23)7.19 Decrease2.svgOpposition

(to Nayanar Ministry)

1996 - 2001

200116 (21)7.59 Increase2.svgGovernment

(Antony Ministry)

2001 - 2004

Government

(Chandy Ministry)

2004 - 2006

20067 (21)7.30 Decrease2.svgOpposition

(to Achuthanandan Ministry)

2006 - 11

201120 (23)7.92 Increase2.svgGovernment

(Chandy Ministry)

2011 - 16

201618 (23)7.40 Decrease2.svgOpposition

(to Vijayan Ministry)

2016 - 2021

202115 (25)8.27 Increase2.svgOpposition

(to Vijayan Ministry)

Incumbent

Current members

Map of Kerala showing 2021 Assembly Election Results 2021 Kerala election result.svg
Map of Kerala showing 2021 Assembly Election Results
Legislative ConstituencyMember
Kerala
Kasaragod
Manjeshwaram A. K. M. Ashraf
Kasaragod N. A. Nellikkunnu
Kozhikode
Koduvally M. K. Muneer
Malappuram
Kondotty T. V. Ibrahim
Eranad P. K. Basheer
Manjeri U. A. Latheef
Perinthalmanna

Najeeb Kanthapuram

Mankada Manjalamkuzhi Ali
Malappuram P. Ubaidulla
Vengara P. K. Kunhalikutty
Vallikkunnu P. Abdul Hameed
Tirurangadi K. P. A. Majeed
Tirur Kurukkoli Moideen
Kottakkal K. K. Abid Hussain Thangal
Palakkad
Mannarkkad N. Samsudheen

Members of Parliament

Loksabha

Source: Loksabha

7th House

8th House

9th House

Rajya Sabha

Source: Rajyasabha

Madras

Kerala

Tamil Nadu

  • A. K. A. Abdul Samad (1964–70)
  • S. A. Khwaja Mohideen (1968–74)
  • A. K. A. Abdul Samad (1970– 76)
  • A. K. Refaye (1972–78)
  • S. A. Khwaja Mohideen (1974-80)

Controversies

The Muslim League has opposed the Supreme Court of India verdict regarding entry of adult women to Sabarimala temple. [38] [39] It is also at odds with several LGBTQ rulings from the Supreme Court. [40] The party also supports the primacy of Muslim Personal Law among Indian Muslims. [41] [42]

IUML opposes implementing gender neutrality and comprehensive sex education in school curriculum saying that it promotes homosexuality, leads to sexual anarchy and is part of an atheist-liberal conspiracy to destroy religious values. [43] [44] [45]

An article by the current president of the Muslim League, on Hagia Sophia, [46] seemed to support the views of political Islam. [47] [48]

Muslim League generally presents itself as a conservative political party in Kerala. [49] [50] In 2021, ten female leaders from the disbanded Haritha state committee lodged a police complaint against the state president of the Muslim Students Federation (MSF) and the Malappuram district general secretary, accusing them of making sexual remarks. [51] [52]

In July 2023, following the Manipur violence where a woman was paraded naked in public, [53] members of the Muslim League raised death slogans in Kanhangad, located in the Kasaragod district of Kerala.The following day, Kerala Police arrested five of those members. [54] [55] Upon criticism over the incident, the State President of IUML Panakkad Sayyid Sadiq Ali Shihab Thangal responded on 28 July, saying no one has the right to hurt the sentiments and faith of others. [56]

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