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The All India Muslim Personal Law Board connected Monday (June 22, 2026) said it would soon travel retired with a broad papers connected the “deteriorating condition” of Muslims successful the state and motorboat a nationwide question against the societal and governmental marginalisation of the community.
The Board made the announcement a time aft a gathering of its enforcement committee.
Briefing reporters connected the decisions and deliberations astatine the meeting, AIMPLB spokesperson S.Q.R. Ilyas said the Board reviewed successful item the existent concern facing the state and the Muslim community, and took a fig of important decisions.
Growing mob violence
“These decisions subordinate successful peculiar to the increasing incidents of mob unit oregon lynching against Muslims successful BJP-ruled States; demolition drives targeting Muslim homes and localities, against mosques and madrasas; bulldozer terrorism; attempts to marque Vande Mataram compulsory successful authorities functions and schools; implementation of azygous government-aided madrasas; and the caller judgement regarding the Kamal Maula Mosque [in Madhya Pradesh],” helium said.
The Executive Committee expressed sedate interest implicit the “rapidly deteriorating concern successful BJP-administered States, the state and the Muslim community,” helium said.
The committee stated that Muslims’ lives, property, honour and dignity, mosques, madrasas, graveyards, idiosyncratic law, cardinal rights, and adjacent their religion and beliefs are nether continuous attack.
Unhappy with Congress
“We are unhappy with each parties, including the Congress. None of them raises issues of Muslims strongly,” Mr. Ilyas said, erstwhile asked astir Congress person Rahul Gandhi’s reported remarks that if an contented is regarding Muslims, the assemblage should beryllium specifically mentioned and not a generalised notation made to minorities.
The Executive Committee decided that a broad papers would beryllium prepared and published connected the “deteriorating information of the Muslim community, communal tensions and violations of cardinal rights, truthful arsenic to awaken the conscience of the people,” helium said.
“With respect to the Kamal Maula Mosque case, the Executive Committee expressed heavy interest implicit the Madhya Pradesh High Court's judgment, stating that determination were humanities evidence, gross records, and colonial-era authoritative documents. The judgement is contrary to centuries-old Muslim contented of worship astatine the site. Furthermore, it is besides inconsistent with the tone of the Places of Worship Act, 1991,” Mr. Ilyas said.
The Executive Committee welcomed the Kamal Maula Mosque Committee's situation of the judgement successful the Supreme Court, and resolved that the AIMPLB would widen each imaginable assistance to the committee successful their ineligible struggle, helium said.
The Executive Committee declared that attempts to marque Vande Mataram compulsory are contrary to Article 25 of the Constitution, Mr. Ilyas said.
Welcome enactment connected Vande Mataram
The Board welcomed the Calcutta High Court’s interim bid staying the authorities directive requiring the singing of Vande Mataram successful madrasas, helium said.
The Executive Committee besides expressed superior interest implicit the ongoing legislative efforts successful BJP-ruled States successful the sanction of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), Mr. Ilyas said.
The gathering noted that aft Uttarakhand and Gujarat, preparations are present nether mode to instrumentality the UCC successful Assam, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra arsenic well.
UCC not mandatory
The Board clarified that the Uniform Civil Code is not a mandatory law bid that courts are bound to enforce; rather, it is simply a non-binding guiding rule included among the Directive Principles of State Policy.
The Executive Committee further resolved that, against the societal and governmental marginalisation of Muslims, usurpation of law norms, the promotion of hatred and hostility, the harm to communal harmony, attacks connected life, property, honour and dignity of Muslims and the demolition of mosques and madrasas, the Board volition motorboat a nationwide question successful concern with justice-loving, democracy-loving, and peace-loving sections of society, Mr. Ilyas said.
For this purpose, an Action Committee is being constituted, helium said, adding that the question whitethorn statesman by extremity of July.
The Executive Committee gathering connected Sunday (June 21) was presided implicit by AIMPLB president Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani, and the proceedings were conducted by wide caput Maulana Fazlur Rahim Muiaddidi. Executive Committee members from crossed the state attended the meeting.
