Kolkata: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has criticised the proposal to make marriage registration compulsory. In a meeting in Kolkata the AIMPLB said marriage registration should be done on a voluntary basis.
The Supreme Court had ordered the Centre to introduce a law on compulsory marriage registrations last year.
Muslim clerics also demanded the ouster of controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen from India.
"There has been several attacks against the Muslim personal law which is not desirable. Muslims in this country have their own identity and that can only be preserved by the law framed according to holy Koran," AIMPLB Assistant General Secretary Mohammad Abdur Raheem Quraishi told a rally organised by the Board.
Demanding Taslima's ouster, All India Minority Forum president Idris Ali accused the government of trying to protect her though. "Taslima has not only hurt the sentiments of Muslims, but she has defamed the Indian Constitution. The government should not extend her visa and she should move out of this country immediately," Ali said.
Other speakers at the rally emphasised the need to preserve the Shariat law which, they maintain, only could preserve the identity of the Muslims in general.
Nearly 500 delegates from all over the country addressed the open session, after the completion of the two-day national seminar organised by the Board after a gap of 23 years in the city.
Quraishi also spoke against compulsory registration of marriages, asserting that by making it compulsory it will create hardship and difficulties for a large section of people irrespective of caste and creed.
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