Assam: AIUDF announces names of candidates for 16 seats

AIUDF has announced its candidates for 16 seats on Saturday.The party has fielded Dilip Nath at Tezpur, Gayatri Bora Kalita at Amguri seat , Abdul Aziz at Badarpur and Nijamuddin Choudhury from Algapur assembly seat.

The party is likely to contest in 75 seats.The Congress Election Committee has also held a meeting in Guwahati on Saturday.

In the list of 16 candidates, there are 10 Muslims and 6 non-Muslims. By giving tickets to non-Muslim candidates, as the party has done in the previous elections also, AIUDF and party supremo Ajmal have tried to emerge as a mainstream party which needs votes of all sections of the society.

AIUDF had played a major role in the defeat of Congress party in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. AIUDF had won just three seats — Dhubri, Barpeta and Karimganj — and finished as runner-up at several other seats. It had won 18 seats in the polls for 126-seat Assembly in 2011 – two of its winning candidates were non-Muslims.