Assam Assembly Elections are due in April 2021 and electioneering is on in full swing in the state. While the alliance formation is happening, a statement from Badruddin Ajmal, MP and founder of All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), has heightened the tension.
Addressing a rally at Gauripur in Dhubri constituency on Wednesday, Assam MP Badruddin Ajmal claimed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would demolish 3,500 mosques in the country if it comes to power again.
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“The BJP has a list of 3,500 mosques in the country. If it comes to power at the Centre again, they will demolish all those mosques,” he claimed at an election meeting.
Ajmal further targeted the ruling BJP in the state and claimed that if the BJP wins Assam elections again, “they will not let women go out wearing ‘burqa’, grow a beard, wear a skullcap or even offer ‘azaan’ at mosques”.
“Will you be able to live in such a way?” he questioned those gathered at his rally. Ajmal later slammed the saffron party on the issue of food habits too.
“Will the BJP decide what meat you will eat at your house? Will you accept it? Are we the servants of the BJP? Whether one likes it or not, we will definitely eat the meat of those animals approved by our religion,” Ajmal said.
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Reacting to his remarks, BJP accused Ajmal of attempting to polarise Muslim votes in the state. BJP leader Mominul Awal said: “Badruddin Ajmal’s statement shows his communal agenda. I would like to advise him that he should first read the Quran. His only agenda is to spread unrest in the state.”
In 2016 state assembly election, BJP-led NDA secured 86 seats, followed by Congress at 26 seats and AIUDF with 13 seats in the 126-Member Legislative Assembly.
In order to rival the incumbent government at hand, Congress inked an alliance with five parties which includes AIUDF, CPI, CPI-M, CPI-ML and Anchalik Gana Morcha.
