The AIUDF on Tuesday claimed that “five-six BJP contestants” in the simply concluded Assam Assembly elections have contacted the social gathering promising assist to the Congress-led Grand Alliance of which Badruddin Ajmal’s outfit is a constituent. Karim Uddin Barbhuiya, one of many round 20 AIUDF candidates who have been flown to Jaipur final week due to worry of poaching by the saffron social gathering, advised PTI, “five-six BJP contestants have contacted me offering their support to the Grand Alliance”. Asked who the BJP candidates have been, Barbhuiya, who’s All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) General Secretary mentioned, “the names cannot be disclosed now. You will know after May two (the day) the results are declared”.
The BJP has rubbished the declare. To one other question as to whether or not the saffron social gathering candidates have been from the Barak or Brahmaputra valley, the AIUDF chief mentioned, “they are from all over Assam”.
On being identified that the BJP contestants if victorious assist the Grand Alliance will come underneath anti-defection regulation, the AIUDF nominee for Sonai constituency mentioned, “they will contest again”.
About media studies of 20 AIUDF contestants being packed off to Rajasthan a number of days in the past fearing horse-trading,
Barbhuiya denied the studies and claimed they’d gone there on “pleasure trip and to visit Ajmer Sharif Dargah for
relaxing after hectic electioneering”.
Saying he had returned to Assam Monday, the AIUDF chief knowledgeable the others would arrive in the state Wednesday.
About 20 candidates of the Congress-led alliance in the Assam state polls have been flown to Jaipur Friday with the social gathering claiming it feared “horse trading” by the BJP.
They have been hosted at Hotel Fairmont on the outskirts of Jaipur. It is similar resort the place Rajasthan Congress MLAs have been lodged throughout a political disaster triggered by the rise up of social gathering chief Sachin Pilot in opposition to chief minister Ashok Gehlot final yr.
Meanwhile, on being contacted BJP Chief Spokesman Rupam Goswami strongly denied the AIUDF declare, asserting “none of
our contestants have contacted the opposition party. Our’s is a disciplined party and its members do no contact other political parties without informing our party leadership”.
“There is no question of contacting the AIUDF as our BJP will win the elections and form government in Assam again,” Goswami mentioned.
The BJP’s chief spokesman mockingly mentioned, “this must be the first time in the history of the country that a political party is claiming contestants of other parties are contacting it even before the poll results are declared”.
Elections to the 126-member Assam meeting was held in three phases between March 27 and April six and outcomes will
come on May 2 together with different poll-bound states.
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