Badruddin Ajmal

Maulana Badruddin Ajmal (born February 12, 1950 in Gopal Nagar , Nagaon District ) is an Indian politician from the state of Assam . He is the founder of the regional party All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) and has been a member of the Lok Sabha (lower house of the Indian parliament) since 2009 .

Badruddin Ajmal was born in 1950 in Gopal Nagar Village, Nagaon District, Assam State. He belongs to Assam's Muslim minority, which makes up almost a third of the state's population. Ajmal was trained at the Islamic University of Dar ul-Ulum Deoband and graduated with a degree in Fazil-e-Deoband , which is comparable to a master's degree in Islamic theology and Arabic . As a graduate of an Islamic university, he has the title of Maulana . Badruddin Ajmal has been married since 1979 and has seven children. As a perfume dealer he made considerable fortunes in Mumbai , some of which he used for charitable purposes. Ajmal is the founder and chairman of the charity Markazul Maarif , which became famous in 2004 when the sub-division Hojai in Nagaon district achieved a literacy rate of 100 percent through a massive literacy campaign it initiated. Badruddin Ajmal was also the chairman of the influential Islamic organization Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind in Assam until he was expelled from the organization because of internal disputes.

In 2005, Badruddin Ajmal founded the Assam United Democratic Front (AUDF) party, later renamed All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), to represent the interests of Assam's minorities. The AUDF quickly rose to become a major political force in the state with the support of the Muslim electorate. In 2006 Ajmal became one of ten members of his party in the state parliament of Assam. In the all-India parliamentary elections in 2009 he ran successfully in the constituency of Dhubri in Assam and was elected as the only candidate of the AIUDF in the Lok Sabha. In the general election in 2014 , in which the AIUDF improved its results on three seats, Ajmal was re-elected.

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SURNAME	Ajmal, Badruddin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ajmal, Maulana Badruddin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Indian politician
DATE OF BIRTH	February 12, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gopal Nagar , Nagaon District