Guwahati: For the 2021 Assam Assembly elections Badruddin Ajmal’s All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) is planning to contest from 40 to 42 constituencies in the state.
According to an AIUDF source, the party is planning to contest from the 28 seats which were won by AIUDF in the previous assembly elections of 2006, 2011 and 2016. The party will ask for another 12 constituencies where they contested in these elections and came second. AIUDF at present holds 13 seats in the Assam Legislative Assembly that they won in 2016.
If the AIUDF has its way this time then Congress leaders and MLAs from the minority community will have to end their political careers. Many of these seats are or were held by Congress. This move of AIUDF has invited revolt within the grand old party. Senior minority leaders of the Congress and MLAs have openly protested the alliance with AIUDF and have submitted memorandum to Jitendra Singh who is the AICC appointed In-charge for Assam.
Currently, Badaruddin Ajmal is in Silchar for a four-day-long visit preparing ground for the upcoming election campaign. Ajmal in his meetings with party workers in Silchar has said that AIUDF will win 12 seats in the Barak Valley. After their grand alliance was finalized by the Congress last August, AIUDF President Ajmal has started meetings with party leaders and party legislators.
With the aim of defeating the Bharatiya Janata Party in the forthcoming Assam Assembly elections, the Congress is already allied with Ajmal’s AIUDF and the Anchalik Gana Morcha (AGM), led by journalist-turned Rajya Sabha MP Ajit Kumar Bhuyan.
The alliance was formally sealed on 3 November in the presence of Jitendra Singh, General Secretary of the All India Congress Committee and In Charge, Assam.
Meanwhile, after its alliance with Congress, Ajmal-led AIUDF has become increasingly aggressive.
The AIUDF has so far referred the Congress as their Big Brother, although they yearn to be the Big Brother (kingmaker) after the Assam Assembly elections.
