iuml.com Indian Union Muslim League : Official Website

Party : Indian Union Muslim League
State : Kerala
Year of Foundation : 1948
Current Leader : E. Ahamed

Home Page : iuml.com

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About IUML :

** Indian union Muslim League was formed with an object of achieving the constitutional rights of Muslims, other backward and minority people of India.

Party Symbol : Ladder

** Muslim League has been standing always for democracy and the integrity of the nation and its all round development and the League’s motto is secularism and communal harmony.
** League could uphold the sacredness of diversity of Indian life besides fighting for the existence and rights of the Muslim minority.
** This mission is responsible for making the League occupied a high position in the democratic system of the country.
** Indian Union Muslim League is the largest forum for the Muslims to achieve their rights through democratic means.
** Muslim League’s history is nothing but the story of this mission.
** It was possible for the Muslim League to voice and become forerunners of the rights of the minorities with the help of the secular principle and support of the other communities.
** From the very beginning the Muslim League has been working by holding the flag of secularism, communal harmony peace and political wisdom in the Indian democratic process.
** The acceptance that Muslim League has received in Kerala politics vouches for this democratic character and fight for minority rights.

FORMATION OF THE PARTY :
** Indian Union Muslim League came in to being on 10 th March 1948 at a national Muslim leaders convention at Rajaji Hall Chennai.
** Quaide Millath Mohamed Ismail Sahib and K.T.M Ahamed Ibrahim were the first President and General Secretary respectively.
** Having a political party for Muslims and other weaker sections with the nomenclature of Muslim League was very risky at that time.
** And the leaders like Ismail Sahib and K.M. Seethi Sahib from Kerala took every pain to organise the party braving heavy odds.

IMPORTANT LANDMARKS :
** IUML had to take its growth from the mass base it had in the southern states of India particularly Kerala and Tamilnadu.
** The saga of growth was momentous thanks to its prominent leaders, local opinion makers and ordinary people.
** It could virtually identify with the muslim masses and other backward classes and it became the political wing of the community.
** The bi-elections in Ramanad and Manjeri of erstwhile Madras Province in 1950 was a morale booster to IUML. From Mmanjeri M.P.M Hassankutty Kurikkal was elected securing 7754 votes, against Congress candidate Palat Kunhikoya’s 214 votes.
** This marked a second coming for the party and has since never looked back.
** From 1952 five Muslim League candidates from Malabar were elected to the Madrass Assembly.
** It is an irony of fate that the Congress which showed the audacity to brand Muslim League as a communal outfit, would never have come to power in Madras without the crucial support of the five League members elected from Malabar.
** These developments underlined the party’s relevance in National politics.
** Ever since the reorganisation of the erstwhile princely states of Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi as well as the Malabar districts of Madras to form the state of Kerala the Muslim League has been conspicuously showing its presence in the Parliament as well as State Legislature.
** B. Pokker Sahib had already been returned to the first Indian Parliament in 1952 from the Malappuram Constituency while Seethi Sahib, Uppi Sahib, Chakkeri Ahamed Kutty, Muhamed Shafi and M. Chadayan were from Malappuram (general) ,Tirur, Kottakkal, Perinthalmanna and Malappuram (reserve) respectively.
** The concept of political alliances was experimented for the first time in India in the 1957 elections to the Kerala Assebbly.
** The electoral understanding entered into by Dr. K.B. Menon of the P.S.P and Seethi Sahib of Muslim League was landmark in the political history of Kerala.
** It was a clear manifestation of promoting communal harmony amongst the secular minded sections of the electorate while the community still retaining its identity.
** The concept envisaged in Quaide Millath’s vision was becoming a reality.

Contact us :
Kerala State Muslim League Committee
League House
R C Road
Kozhikkode – 32