All India United Democratic Front

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The All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) ( Assamese সৰ্ব ভাৰতীয় সংযুক্ত গণতান্ত্ৰীক মৰ্চা ), formerly Assam United Democratic Front (AUDF) , is a regional party from the Indian state of Assam .

The Assam United Democratic Front was founded in 2005 by Badruddin Ajmal . It later changed its name to All India United Democratic Front. The party has its following among the Muslim minority, who make up around 30 percent of the population in Assam, especially among the Bengali Muslims who are descended from immigrants from Bangladesh . Since the 1980s, the Muslims of Assam have repeatedly fallen victim to xenophobic pogroms by the Assamese majority population. Traditionally, the minorities of Assam felt represented by the Congress Party , but since it was founded, the AIUDF has managed to rally a large part of the Muslim electorate behind it. In addition, the AIUDF sees itself as representing the interests of the other disadvantaged minorities of Assam, such as the Adivasi , who came from central India to work in the tea plantations of Assam during the colonial period .

In 2006, the AUDF competed for the first time in the elections to the federal state parliament in Assam and was able to win ten out of 126 constituencies straight away. In the next state election in Assam in 2011, the AIUDF improved its result: it entered parliament with 18 members and rose to become the second largest party behind the ruling Congress party. The AIUDF also competes in the all-India parliamentary elections in Assam. In the 2009 parliamentary elections , she won one of 14 constituencies in Assam. The party founder Badruddin Ajmal moved as the only member of his party to the Lok Sabha (the lower house of the all-India parliament). In the 2014 parliamentary elections , the AIUDF was able to improve its result to three seats in the Lok Sabha.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Udayon Misra: "Assam. New Equations and Uneasy Alliances", in: Economic and Political Weekly 41.23 (2006), pp. 2291-2293.
  2. ↑ BBC News, March 10, 2009: Stripped Assam woman in poll bid.
  3. ^ Election Commission of India: Statistical Report on General Election, 2006 to the Legislative Assembly of Assam. (PDF; 1.3 MB)
  4. ^ Election Commission of India: General Elections, 2009 (15th Lok Sabha). Performance of State Parties. (PDF; 61 kB)