Won't ever project Badruddin Ajmal as CM: AIUDF

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GUWAHATI: The AIUDF has made it clear that it will not ever project party president Badruddin Ajmal as chief ministerial candidate in any Assembly election in the State. The party has further said that it has taken a resolution to this effect.

Making this public in a press conference here on Saturday, AIUDF general secretary and Naoboicha MLA Mamun Imdadul Haque Choudhury said, "We've taken a resolution stating that we won't project Ajmal as a candidate for the chief minister of Assam in any Assembly election in the State. We're a religious minority community. We want peaceful coexistence with the majority in the State. In 1980 when Sayeda Anwara Taimur was the Chief Minister of Assam, the Assam Agitation did gain its speed. We don't that environment back in the State. We only want peace, development and rehabilitation of unemployed.

"If the Congress-AIUDF alliance becomes a reality, the Congress will be the big brother. And in accordance with alliance rule, the chief minister will be from the big brother. So far we've no understanding with the Congress on seat-sharing. We're busy in preparing the common minimum agenda."

AIUDF's Jania MLA Hafij Rafiqul Islam said, "The BJP is scared of the Congress-AIUDF alliance, and that led BJP's national general secretary Ram Madhab terming our alliance as an unholy one – an understanding of the corrupt with infiltrators.

"Who has gone for an understanding with infiltrators? It is all-acceptable that all those who entered Assam after 1971 have to be detected and deported irrespective of their faiths. But what's the stand of the BJP? It has brought the CAA (Citizenship Amendment Bill only to bring Bangladeshis to India. If our alliance is an unholy one, how come the BJP did form a coalition government with PDP chief Mehboba Mufti? PDP is a party that declared Afjal Guru as a martyr.

"To revive the falling economy of the State neither Dispur nor New Delhi is taking any measures. The GDP in the country is -23. The Centre has made it clear that it is not going to pay states their shares of GST, but allowed them to take loans from the Centre. Now the State government is going to take Rs 6,000-crore loan from the Centre. It doesn't augur well for the State."  

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