Guwahati: The All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), led by Badruddin Ajmal, has announced its decision to contest 35 out of the total 126 seats independently in the upcoming Assam Assembly elections.
AIUDF MLA Aminul Islam said that the party would contest the polls without any pre-poll alliance.
He confirmed the party’s strategy, stating that the decision was finalized during a recent meeting involving AIUDF MLAs and senior party leaders at party president Badruddin Ajmal’s residence in Mumbai.
“We will fight in 35 seats, and we will go solo this time. Recently, our MLAs held discussions with our party president Badruddin Ajmal and we are gearing up for the upcoming polls,” Islam said.
Islam said they are confident about a good show, as the party had contested the elections on its own in the past, too. “We fought the elections in a seat-sharing arrangement with Congress in the Assembly elections in 2021 only. We contested the polls on our own sincethe formation of the party in 2005. We had won 18 seats even when we fought the elections alone,” he said.
Although the AIUDF is presently gearing up for a solo electoral fight, MLA Aminul Islam did not rule out the possibility of future collaboration. “If Congress or any other opposition party proposes an alliance to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party, the AIUDF will definitely consider it,” he said, adding, “Right now, there is no plan for an alliance, but we believe all opposition forces should unite against the BJP.”
AIUDF and Congress contested the 2021 Assembly elections on seat sharing arrangement and Ajmal’s party won 15 seats.
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Congress, however, severed ties with AIUDF ahead of Lok Sabha elections in 2024. AIUDF, however, drew a blank in the Lok Sabha polls and even its chief Ajmal lost the Dhubri seat to Congress’s Rakibul Hussain.
