Lucknow: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) may have been silent on the Women`s Reservation Bill. But when it came to reconstituting its executive body, it unanimously increased the representation of women from one to five.
Announcing this on the last day of the board`s three-day annual convention at the Nadwa Darul-Uloom Islamic University here, AIMPLB spokesman-cum-legal adviser Zafaryab Jilani told reporters Sunday: "We have nominated five women this time on the board`s executive committee."
Socialite Begum Naseem Iqtidar was the lone woman on the committee till now.
The new entrants are Ruksana Lari, Safia Naseem (Lucknow), Noor Jehan Shakil (Kolkata) and Asma Zohra (Hyderabad).
At the convention, Nadwa-Darul-Uloom Rector Maulana Rabe Hasan Nadvi was unanimously elected the board president for a third consecutive term. Renowned Shia cleric and scholar Maulana Kalbe Sadiq was named as senior vice president.
AIMPLB has raised the overall strength of its executive committee from 41 to 51. "We have inducted representatives from far off regions like Ladakh and the northeast to make the board more broad-based", said Jilani.
The board has 251 members of which 102 are founder members.
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