“AIUDF will continue to work for the welfare of Assam and its people cutting across religious and linguistic differences and would play a constructive opposition in the house as it had done in the past”, AUIDF President Maulana Badruddin Ajmal Qasmi said here.
He expressed satisfaction over his party performance in Assam. The party has nearly doubled its tally from 10 to 18 in the recent Assam assembly elections. Ajmal said that his party has emerged as the second largest party after the ruling Congress. He assured that the party will serve and guard the interests of minority and weaker sections of the society in the state with full force.
AIUDF had contested 75 seats and managed to win 18, in a major improvement upon its earlier performance, with 16 Muslims, 2 Non-Muslims from SC and ST and one female. In other 17 seats it had secured the second position.
The AIUDF also said that it was his efforts that Muslim representation in the state has increased for the first time to reach the high figure of 28. He however clarified that the AIDUF represented all sections of society.
Attacking Congress, Maulana Ajmal said that Congress had tried its best creating internal dispute within Assam State Jamiat but the Assamese Muslim have shown their maturity and offered the AIUDF double number of seats comparing to the 2006 Assembly election.
Maulana Ajmal also lambasted those who according to him spreads canards that the AIDUF was in cahoots with the BJP. He said it was proved wrong as the BJP and the AGP, despite their pre-poll ‘understanding’, were decimated at the hustings.