MAULANA RABEY NADWI RE-ELECTED AIMPLB PRESIDENT

MAULANA RABEY NADWI RE-ELECTED AIMPLB PRESIDENT

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August 10, 2022

Maulana Rabey Hasni Nadwi was re-elected President of All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) for the third consecutive term, on March 20. Others elected on the board are: Salim Qasmi, Kalbe Sadiq, Syed Fakhruddin Ashraf and Kaka Saeed Ahmad Umri as vice-presidents, Syed Nizamuddin as General Secretary, Muhammad Wali Rahmani, Abdus Sattar Yousuf Sheikh, as Secretaries and Mohd Abdur Rahim Qureshi as Assistant General Secretary.

Syed Qasim Rasool Ilyas, the board’s spokesperson, said that an amendment had also been made in the Constitution of the Board increasing the number of executives from 40 to 50. “Forty of these executive committee members would be elected and ten would be nominated by the President,” he said.  The four new female members are Rukhsana Lari, Safia Naseem (both from Lucknow), Noorjehan Shakeel (Kolkata) and Asma Zehra (Hyderabad). Naseem Iqtidar Ali Khan was till now the sole woman member in the executive committee, and she continues to be in the panel.