Indian Union Muslim League

The Indian Union Muslim League (abbreviated as the I. U. M. L. or the League) is an Indian political party primarily based in the Indian state of Kerala. It is recognised as a State Party in Kerala by the Election Commission of India.[5]

Indian Union Muslim League
AbbreviationI. U. M. L. (the League)
PresidentK. M. Kader Mohideen
ChairpersonSayyid Sadiq Ali Shihab Thangal
SecretaryP. K. Kunhalikutty
Lok Sabha LeaderE. T. Muhammed Basheer
Rajya Sabha LeaderP. V. Abdul Wahab
FounderM. Muhammad Ismail
Founded
  • 10 March 1948 (1948-03-10) (First Council)
  • 1 September 1951 (1951-09-01) (Constitution)
Preceded byIUML
HeadquartersQuaid-e-Millath Manzil, No. 36, Maraikayar Lebbai Street, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.[1]
Student wingMuslim Students Federation (M. S. F.)
Youth wingMuslim Youth League (the Youth League)
Women's wingMuslim Women's League
Labour wingSwatantra Thozhilali Union (S. T. U.)
Peasant's wingSwathanthra Karshaka Sangam (Kerala)
IdeologyCommunitarianism[2]
Conservatism[3]
Political positionCentre-right[4]
Alliance
Seats in Lok Sabha
3 / 543
Seats in Rajya Sabha
1 / 245
Seats in Kerala Legislative Assembly
15 / 140
Election symbol
IUML Election Symbol
Party flag

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]

I.U.M.L. is a major member of the opposition United Democratic Front, the Indian National Congress-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 United Progressive Alliance 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 K. Navas Kani 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
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
  • First Council of the Indian segment of the Muslim League was held on 10 March 1948 at the south Indian city of Madras (now Chennai).[6]
  • On 1 September 1951 the 'Indian Union Muslim League' came into being in Madras (constitution was passed).[6]
  • B. Pocker Sahib, elected from Malappuram Constituency, was a member of the first Lok Sabha (1952–57).[10]
  • K. M Seethi Sahib served as the Speaker of the Kerala Assembly from 1960 to 1961.[14]

From the 1960s to the 80s

With the Congress Party

In the 1990s

From the 2000s

National Presidents of Indian Union Muslim League


No. Name Portrait Tenure Home State
1 M. Muhammed Ismail 10 March 1948 — 5 April 1972 Tamil Nadu
2 Bafaqy Thangal

1972 — 19 January 1973 Kerala
3 Ebrahim Sulaiman Sait 1973—1994 Karnataka
4 G. M. Banatwala 1994— 25 June 2008 Maharashtra
5 E. Ahamed 25 June 2008 — 1 February 2017 Kerala
6 K. M. Kader Mohideen 27 February 2017 — present Tamil Nadu

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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.

— The Indian Express[27]

Composition
DesignationName
Chairman- Political Advisory Committee (PAC)Sadiq Ali Thangal (Kerala)
National PresidentK. M. Kader Mohideen (Tamil Nadu)[28]
Vice Presidents Iqbal 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]
Secretaries Khorrum Anis Omer (Delhi)
M. P. Abdussamad Samadani (Kerala)
S. Naim Akthar (Bihar)
Siraj Ebrahim Sait (Karnataka)
Assistant Secretaries Abdul 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)
Election Seats Vote% Government/Opposition Ministers Sources
Won (Contested)
1957 8 (19)

As independents

 4.72 Opposition (to Namboodiripad Ministry)

1957 - 59

 [17][32]
1960 11 (12) 5.0 Increase Government (Pattom Ministry)

1960 - 62

  • Formally left the coalition in 1961 as an abstaining Opposition.[33]
 Excluded from the Pattom Ministry[33] [33][17][34]
Abstaining Opposition (to Shankar Ministry)[33]

1962 - 64

 [33]
1965 6 (16) 3.71 Decrease Inconclusive (no government formed)[33] [34][17]
1967 14 (15) 6.75 Increase Government[8] (Namboodiripad Ministry)

1967 - 69

 [8][34]
Government (Achutha Menon Ministry)

1969 - 70

 [35]
1970 11 (20) 7.7 Increase Government (Achutha Menon Ministry)

1970 - 77

 [35][36]
1977 13 (16) 6.65 Decrease Government (Karunakaran Ministry)

1977

 [35][36]
Government (Antony Ministry)

1977 - 78
Government (PKV Ministry)

1978 - 79
Government (Koya Ministry)

1979

With the United Democratic Front (1979/80 - present)
Election Seats Vote % Government/Opposition[8] Ministers
Won (Contested)
1980 14 (21) 7.18 Increase Opposition (to Nayanar Ministry)

1980 - 81

Government (Karunakaran Ministry)

1981 - 82
1982 14 (18) 6.17 Decrease Government (Karunakaran Ministry)

1982 - 87
1987 15 (23) 7.73 Increase Opposition

(to Nayanar Ministry)

1987 - 91

1991 19 (22) 7.37 Decrease Government

(Karunakaran Ministry)

1991 - 95
Government

(Antony Ministry)

1995 - 96
1996 13 (23) 7.19 Decrease Opposition

(to Nayanar Ministry)

1996 - 2001

2001 16 (21) 7.59 Increase Government

(Antony Ministry)

2001 - 2004
Government

(Chandy Ministry)

2004 - 2006
2006 7 (21) 7.30 Decrease Opposition

(to Achuthanandan Ministry)

2006 - 11

2011 20 (23) 7.92 Increase Government

(Chandy Ministry)

2011 - 16
2016 18 (23) 7.40 Decrease Opposition

(to Vijayan Ministry)

2016 - 2021

2021 15 (25) 8.27 Increase Opposition

(to Vijayan Ministry)

Incumbent

Current members
Map of Kerala showing 2021 Assembly Election Results
Legislative Constituency Member
Kerala
Kasaragod
Manjeshwaram A. K. M. Ashraf
KasaragodN. A. Nellikkunnu
Kozhikode
KoduvallyM. K. Muneer
Malappuram
KondottyT. V. Ibrahim
EranadP. K. Basheer
ManjeriU. A. Latheef
Perinthalmanna

Najeeb Kanthapuram

MankadaManjalamkuzhi Ali
MalappuramP. Ubaidulla
VengaraP. K. Kunhalikutty
VallikkunnuP. Abdul Hameed
TirurangadiK. P. A. Majeed
TirurKurukkoli Moideen
KottakkalK. K. Abid Hussain Thangal
Palakkad
MannarkkadN. Samsudheen

Members of Parliament

Loksabha

Source: Loksabha

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.[37][38] It is also at odds with several LGBTQ rulings from the Supreme Court.[39] The party also supports the primacy of Muslim Personal Law among Indian Muslims.[40][41]

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.[42][43][44]

An article by the current president of the Muslim League, on Hagia Sophia,[45] seemed to support the views of political Islam.[46][47]

Muslim League generally presents itself as a conservative political party in Kerala.[48][49] 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.[50][51]

In July 2023, following the Manipur violence where a woman was paraded naked in public,[52] 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.[53][54] Upon criticism over the incident, the State President of IUML Panakkad Saiyyad Sadiq Ali Shihab Thangal responded on 28 July, saying no one has the right to hurt the sentiments and faith of others.[55]

See also

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