Indian Union Muslim League | |
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| Abbreviation | I. U. M. L. |
| President | K. M. Kader Mohideen |
| Chairman | 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 |
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| Preceded by | AIML |
| Headquarters | Quaid-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 wing | Swathanthra Karshaka Sangam (Kerala) |
| Ideology | Islamic modernism[2] Liberal conservatism[3] |
| Political position | Centre[4] tocentre-right[5][6] |
| Alliance | UDF (Kerala) SPA (Tamil Nadu) INDIA (national level) |
| Seats in Lok Sabha | 3 / 543 |
| Seats in Rajya Sabha | 2 / 245 |
| Seats in Kerala Legislative Assembly | 15 / 140 |
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Indian Union Muslim League (abbreviated as theIUML orMuslim League) is a political party primarily based inKerala. It is recognised as aState Party in Kerala by theElection Commission of India.[7]
After thePartition of India, the first Council of the Indian segment of theAll-India Muslim League was held on 10 March 1948 at the south Indian city of Madras (nowChennai).[8] The party renamed itself as the 'Indian Union Muslim League' and adopted a new constitution on 1 September 1951.[8]
IUML is a major member of the oppositionUnited Democratic Front, theINC-led pre-poll state level alliance in Kerala.[9][10] Whenever theUnited 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.[9] The party is a part of theINDIA in national level.[9] The League first gained a ministry (Minister of State for External Affairs) inIndian Government in 2004.[11]
The party currently has five members in Parliament -E. T. Mohammed Basheer,M. P. Abdussamad Samadani andKani K. Navas in theLok Sabha andP. V. Abdul Wahab and Adv. Haris Beeran[12] in theRajya Sabha - and fifteen members inKerala State Legislative Assembly.
The first Muslim political agency in the region was the Kerala Muslim Majlis formed in 1931. It joined the federal setup of All-India Muslim League later.[13]
After the partition of India in 1947, theAll-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).[14]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.[8] The Travancore Muslim League (the States' Muslim League) was merged with the Malabar League in November 1956.[8]
Indian Union Muslim League contestsGeneral Elections under the Indian Constitution.[14] The party is normally represented by two members in the Indian Lower House (theLok Sabha).[14]B. Pocker, elected from Malappuram Constituency, was a member of the First Lower House (1952–57) from the Madras Muslim League.[14] 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.[15] InWest Bengal, the League had won Assembly seats in the 1970s, and A. K. A. Hassanussaman was a member of theAjoy Mukherjee cabinet.[16]
Indian Union Muslim League first gained a ministry in Kerala Government as part of theCommunist Party of India Marxist-led United Front in 1967. The party switched fronts in 1969 and formed an alliance with theCongress in 1976.[17][10] It later became a chief constituent in a succession ofIndian National Congress-led ministries.[10]
| No. | Name | Portrait | Tenure | Home State |
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| 1 | M. Muhammed Ismail | .jpg) | 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 |
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.
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[30]
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.
| Designation | Name |
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| Chairman- Political Advisory Committee (PAC) | Sadiq Ali Thangal (Kerala) |
| National President | K. M. Kader Mohideen (Tamil Nadu)[32] |
| Vice Presidents | Iqbal Ahmed (Uttar Pradesh) |
| Dastagir Ibrahim Aga (Karnataka) | |
| National General Secretary | P. K. Kunhalikutty (Kerala)[33] |
| National Organising Secretary | E. T. Mohammed Basheer (Kerala) |
| National Treasurer | P. V. Abdul Wahab (Kerala)[34] |
| 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) |
Source:http://www.ceo.kerala.gov.in/electionhistory.htmlArchived 11 November 2021 at theWayback Machine
| Election | Seats | Vote% | Government/Opposition | Ministers | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Won (Contested) | |||||
| 1957 | 8 (19) As independents | 4.72 | Opposition (toNamboodiripad Ministry) 1957 - 59 | [21][37] | |
| 1960 | 11 (12) | 5.0 | Government (Pattom Ministry) 1960 - 62
| Excluded from thePattom Ministry[38] | [38][21][39] |
| Abstaining Opposition (toShankar Ministry)[38] 1962 - 64 | [38] | ||||
| 1965 | 6 (16) | 3.71 | Inconclusive (no government formed)[38] | [39][21] | |
| 1967 | 14 (15) | 6.75 | Government[10] (Namboodiripad Ministry) 1967 - 69 | [10][39] | |
| Government (Achutha Menon Ministry) 1969 - 70 | [40] | ||||
| 1970 | 11 (20) | 7.7 | Government (Achutha Menon Ministry) 1970 - 77 | [40][41] | |
| 1977 | 13 (16) | 6.65 | Government (Karunakaran Ministry) 1977 | [40][41] | |
| Government (Antony Ministry) 1977 - 78 |
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| Government (PKV Ministry) 1978 - 79 | |||||
| Government (Koya Ministry) 1979 | |||||
| Election | Seats | Vote % | Government/Opposition[10] | Ministers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Won (Contested) | ||||
| 1980 | 14 (21) | 7.18 | Opposition (toNayanar Ministry) 1980 - 81 | |
| Government (Karunakaran Ministry) 1981 - 82 | ||||
| 1982 | 14 (18) | 6.17 | Government (Karunakaran Ministry) 1982 - 87 | |
| 1987 | 15 (23) | 7.73 | Opposition (toNayanar Ministry) 1987 - 91 | |
| 1991 | 19 (22) | 7.37 | Government (Karunakaran Ministry) 1991 - 95 |
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| Government (Antony Ministry) 1995 - 96 |
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| 1996 | 13 (23) | 7.19 | Opposition (toNayanar Ministry) 1996 - 2001 | |
| 2001 | 16 (21) | 7.59 | Government (Antony Ministry) 2001 - 2004 |
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| Government (Chandy Ministry) 2004 - 2006 |
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| 2006 | 7 (21) | 7.30 | Opposition (toAchuthanandan Ministry) 2006 - 11 | |
| 2011 | 20 (23) | 7.92 | Government (Chandy Ministry) 2011 - 16 | |
| 2016 | 18 (23) | 7.40 | Opposition (toVijayan Ministry) 2016 - 2021 | |
| 2021 | 15 (25) | 8.27 | Opposition (to Vijayan Ministry) | |
| Election Year | Alliance | Seats contested | Seats won | Total Votes | Percentage of votes | +/- Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | UDF | 2 | 2 / 20 | 1,199,839 | 6.07% | 0.59% |
| 2019 | UDF | 2 | 2 / 20 | 1,111,697 | 5.48% | 0.94% |
| 2014 | UDF | 2 | 2 / 20 | 816,226 | 4.54% | 0.54% |
| 2009 | UDF | 2 | 2 / 20 | 813,741 | 5.07% | 0.21% |
| 2004 | UDF | 2 | 1 / 20 | 733,228 | 4.86% | 0.44% |
| 1999 | UDF | 2 | 2 / 20 | 810,135 | 5.30% | 0.29% |
| 1998 | UDF | 2 | 2 / 20 | 745,070 | 5.01% | 0.07% |
| 1996 | UDF | 2 | 2 / 20 | 745,070 | 5.08% | 0.06% |
| 1991 | UDF | 2 | 2 / 20 | 715,222 | 5.02% | 0.21% |
| 1989 | UDF | 2 | 2 / 20 | 780,322 | 5.23% | 0.06% |
| 1984 | UDF | 2 | 2 / 20 | 575,754 | 5.29% | 0.27% |
| 1980 | UDF | 2 | 2 / 20 | 454,235 | 5.60% | 0.40% |
| 1977 | UDF | 2 | 2 / 20 | 533,726 | 6.0% | 0.38% |
| 1971 | LDF | 2 | 2 / 19 | 366,702 | 5.62% | 0.98% |
| 1967 | LDF | 2 | 2 / 19 | 413,868 | 6.6% | 2.11% |
| 1962 | LDF | 3 | 2 / 18 | 248,038 | 4.49% | 2.84% |
| 1957 |  | 1 | 1 / 18 | 99,777 | 1.65% | New |
| Election Year | Alliance | Seats contested | Seats won | Total Votes | Percentage of votes | +/- Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | UDF | 25 | 15 / 140 | 1,723,593 | 8.27% | 0.87% |
| 2016 | UDF | 23 | 18 / 140 | 1,496,864 | 7.4% | 0.52% |
| 2011 | UDF | 23 | 20 / 140 | 1,383,670 | 7.92% | 0.62% |
| 2006 | UDF | 21 | 7 / 140 | 1,135,098 | 7.30% | 0.70% |
| 2001 | UDF | 23 | 16 / 140 | 1,259,572 | 8.00% | 0.81% |
| 1996 | UDF | 22 | 13 / 140 | 1,025,556 | 7.19% | 0.18% |
| 1991 | UDF | 22 | 19 / 140 | 1,044,582 | 7.37% | 0.36% |
| 1987 | UDF | 23 | 15 / 140 | 985,011 | 7.73% | 1.56% |
| 1982 | UDF | 18 | 14 / 140 | 590,255 | 6.17% | 1.01% |
| 1980 | UDF | 21 | 14 / 140 | 684,910 | 7.18% | 0.52% |
| 1977 | UDF | 16 | 13 / 140 | 584,642 | 6.66% | 0.90% |
| 1970 | LDF | 20 | 11 / 133 | 569,220 | 7.56% | 0.81% |
| 1967 | LDF | 15 | 14 / 133 | 424,159 | 6.75% | 2.92% |
| 1965 | | 16 | 6 / 133 | 242,529 | 3.83% | 1.13% |
| 1960 | | 12 | 11 / 126 | 401,925 | 4.96% | New |
| 1957 | | 19 | 8 / 126 | 4.72% | |
| No. | Photo | Portfolio | Name (Lifespan) | Assumed office | Left office | Duration | Constituency (House) | Prime Minister | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | Minister of External Affairs (MoS) | E. Ahamed (1938–2017) | 23 May 2004 | 22 May 2009 | 4 years, 364 days | Ponnani (Lok Sabha) | Manmohan Singh | |
| Minister of Railways (MoS) | 28 May 2009 | 19 January 2011 | 1 year, 236 days | Malappuram (Lok Sabha) | |||||
| Minister of External Affairs (MoS) | 19 January 2011 | 26 May 2014 | 3 years, 127 days | ||||||
| Minister of Human Resource Development (MoS) | 12 July 2011 | 28 October 2012 | 1 year, 108 days | ||||||
Source:Loksabha
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8th House
9th House
Source:Rajyasabha
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Tamil Nadu
The party when in control of the local self-government department, issued a circular which legalised marriage for Muslim women between ages of 16 and 18 and Muslim men below age 21.The circular was later amended after backlash.[42]
The Muslim League has opposed theSupreme Court of India verdict regardingentry of adult women to Sabarimala temple.[43][44] It is also at odds with severalLGBTQ rulings from theSupreme Court.[45] The party also supports the primacy ofMuslim Personal Law among Indian Muslims.[46][47]
IUML opposes implementinggender neutrality andcomprehensive 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.[48][49][50]
An article by the current president of the Muslim League, onHagia Sophia,[51] seemed to support the views ofpolitical Islam.[52][53]
Muslim League generally presents itself as a conservative political party in Kerala.[54][55] 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.[56][57]
In July 2023, following theManipur violence where a woman was paraded naked in public,[58] members of the Muslim League raised anti Hindu slogans inKanhangad, located in theKasaragod district of Kerala. The following day,Kerala Police arrested five of those members.[59][60][61] 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.[62]
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