Indian Union Muslim League

The Indian Union Muslim League or I. U. M. L. (commonly referred to as the League inside Kerala) is a centre-right political party in India. It is recognized by the Election Commission of India as a State Party in Kerala.

Indian Union Muslim League
AbbreviationI. U. M. L (the League)
PresidentK. M. Kader Mohideen
ChairpersonSayed Hyderali Shihab Thangal
SecretaryP. K. Kunhalikutty
Lok Sabha leaderE. T. Muhammed Basheer
Rajya Sabha leaderP. V. Abdul Wahab
FounderMuhammad Ismail
Founded10 March 1948 (1948-03-10)
HeadquartersQuaid-e-Millath Manzil, No. 36, Maraikayar Lebbai Street, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.[1]
Newspaper(see below)
Student wingMuslim Students Federation (M. S. F.)
Youth wingMuslim Youth League (the Youth League)
Women's wingIndian Union Women's League
Labour wingSwathanthra Trade Union (Kerala)
Peasant's wingSwathanthra Karshaka Sangam (Kerala)
Political positionCentre-right
SloganUnity is Strength
Alliance
Seats in Lok Sabha
3 / 543
Seats in Rajya Sabha
1 / 245
Seats in Kerala Legislative Assembly
18 / 140
Seats in Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
1 / 234
Election symbol
Website
Twitter Handle

Indian Union Muslim League was formed in March, 1948 at the south Indian city of Madras (now Chennai).[2] The party is a major member of the opposition United Democratic Front, the Indian National Congress lead pre-poll state level alliance in Kerala.[3][4] Whenever the United Democratic Front rules in Kerala, the party leaders are chosen as important Cabinet Ministers. The party has always had a constant, if small presence, in the Indian Parliament.[3] The party is a part of the United Progressive Alliance in national level.[3] The League first gained a ministry (Minister of State for External Affairs) in Indian Government in 2004.[5]

The party currently has four members in Parliament (P. K. Kunhalikutty, E. T. Mohammed Basheer, and K. Navas Kani in the Lower House and P. V. Abdul Wahab in the Upper House) and nineteen members in State Legislative Assemblies (Kerala and Tamil Nadu).

History
Indian Union Muslim League leadership (Kerala, 1957)

After the partition of India in 1947, the All-India Muslim League was disbanded. It was succeeded by the Indian Union Muslim League in the new India (March, 1948).[3] M. Muhammad Ismail, the then President of the Madras Muslim League (M. M. L.) was chosen as the Convener of the Indian section of the League.[2]

The party contests Indian General Elections under the Indian Constitution. B. Pocker, elected from Malappuram Constituency, was a member of the First Lower House (1952–57) from the Madras Muslim League (M. M. L.).[3] The Travancore League (the States' Muslim League) was merged with the Malabar League in November, 1956.[2]

The party is normally represented by two members in the Indian Lower House (the Lok Sabha).[3] The party currently has four members in Parliament.

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.[6][4] It later became a chief constituent in a succession of Indian National Congress-lead ministries.[4] Apart from Kerala and West Bengal, the League had Legislative Assembly members in Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, Maharastra, Karanataka, Uttar Pradesh, and Assam.[7] 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.[8]

Early years
  • Indian Union Muslim League formed in March, 1948 at the south Indian city of Madras (now Chennai).[2]
  • B. Pocker Sahib, elected from Malappuram Constituency, was a member of the first Lok Sabha (1952–57).[3]
  • K. M Seethi Sahib served as the Speaker of the Kerala Assemby from 1960 to 1961.[9]
  • M. Muhammad Ismail offered to send his son to join the Indian army to fight the war against China.[10]

From the 1960s to the 80s

With the Congress Party

In the 1990s

From the 2000s

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

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

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


Composition
A postage stamp released in commemoration of Mohammed Ali Shihab Thangal (1936-2009).
The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (2004-14) releasing a postage stamp in commemoration of Mohammed Ali Shihab Thangal (1936-2009). E. Ahamed, Hyder Ali Shihab Thangal and Sachin Pilot are also seen.
DesignationName
Chairman-Political AdvisorySayed Hyderali Shihab Thangal (Kerala)[19]
National PresidentK. M. Kader Mohideen (Tamil Nadu)[20]
Vice-Presidents Iqbal Ahmed (Uttar Pradesh)
Dastagir Ibrahim Aga (Karnataka)
National General Secretary P. K. Kunhalikutty (Kerala)[21]
National Organising Secretary E. T. Mohammed Basheer (Kerala)
National Treasurer P. V. Abdul Wahab (Kerala)[22]
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
  • Youth Wing: Muslim Youth League (the Youth League)
    • National President: Sabir S. Gaffar (West Bangal)
    • Kerala State General Secretary: P. K. Firoz
    • Kerala State President: Syed Munawar Ali Shihab Thangal
    • National Secretary: C. K. Subair (Kerala)
  • Students' Wing: Muslim Students Federation (M. S. F.)
    • National President: T. P. Ashrafali
    • National General Secretary: S. H. Muhammed Arshad
  • Women's Political Wing: Muslim Women's League
  • Trade Union Organization (Kerala): Swathanthra Thozhilali Union (S. T. U., Independent Workers Union)
  • Peasants' Union (Kerala): Swathanthra Karshaka Sangam (Independent Peasants Union)
  • Advocates: Lawyers Forum
  • Expatriates: Kerala Muslim Cultural Centre (K. M. C. C.)

Kerala Legislative Assembly

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

Election Seats Vote % Government/Opposition Ministers Ruling Coalition/Front
Won (Contested)
1957 7 or 8 (as independents)[23][13] Opposition (to Namboodiripad Ministry)

1957 - 59

 PSP-League alliance[13]
1960 11[24] (12) 4.96 Government[24] (Pattom Ministry)

1960 - 62

  • Formally left the coalition in 1961 as an abstaining Opposition.[24]
 Excluded from the Pattom Ministry[24] Congress-PSP-League

coalition[24][13]

(or)

Joint Front[25]

Abstaining Opposition (to Shankar Ministry)[24]

1962 - 64

 No coalition[24]
1965 6 (16) 3.83 Inconclusive (no government formed)[24] United Left Front[25](CPIM-League alliance)[13]
1967 14 (15) 6.75 Government[4] (Namboodiripad Ministry)

1967 - 69

 United Front[4]

(Seven Party Alliance)

(or)

United Left Front[25]

Government (Achutha Menon Ministry)

1969 - 70

 Mini Front[26]
1970 11 (20) 7.56 Government (Achutha Menon Ministry)

1970 - 77

 Mini/Maxi Front[26](or)

United Front[27]

1977 13 (16) 6.66 Government (Karunakaran Ministry)

1977

 Maxi Front

(revamped)[26]

(or)

United Front[27]

Government (Antony Ministry)

1977 - 78
Government (PKV Ministry)

1978 - 79
Government (Koya Ministry)

1979
1980 14 (21) 7.18 Opposition (to Nayanar Ministry)

1980 - 81

 UDF[4]
Government (Karunakaran Ministry)

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

1982 - 87
1987 15 (23) 7.73 Opposition

(to Nayanar Ministry)

1987 - 91

1991 19 (22) 7.37 Government

(Karunakaran Ministry)

1991 - 95
Government

(Antony Ministry)

1995 - 96
1996 13 (22) 7.19 Opposition

(to Nayanar Ministry)

1996 - 2001

2001 16 (21) 7.59 Government

(Antony Ministry)

2001 - 2004
Government

(Chandy Ministry)

2004 - 2006
2006 7 (21) 7.30 Opposition

(to Achuthanandan Ministry)

2006 - 11

2011 20 (23) 7.92 Government

(Chandy Ministry)

2011 - 16
2016 18 (23) 7.40 Opposition

(to Vijayan Ministry)

2016 - present

Current members
Map of Kerala showing 2016 Assembly Election Results
Legislative Constituency Member
Tamil Nadu
Tenkasi
Kadayanallur K. A. M. Abubacker
Kerala
Kasaragod
Manjeshwaram M. C. Kamaruddin
KasaragodN. A. Nellikkunnu
Kannur
Azhikode K. M. Shaji
Kozhikode
KuttiadyParakkal Abdulla
Kozhikode SouthM. K. Muneer
Malappuram
KondottyT. V. Ibrahim
EranadP. K. Basheer
ManjeriM. Ummer
PerinthalmannaManjalamkuzhi Ali
MankadaT. A. Ahamed Kabir
MalappuramP. Ubaidulla
VengaraK. N. A. Khader
VallikkunnuP. Abdul Hameed
TirurangadiP. K. Abdu Rabb
TirurC. Mammutty
KottakkalK. K. Abid Hussain Thangal
Palakkad
MannarkkadN. Samsudheen
Ernakulam
KalamasseryV. K. Ebrahim Kunju

Members in Indian Parliament

Lower House (the Lok Sabha)

Source: Loksabha

Council of States (the 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)

References
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